Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@FaeKnight Life is what happens when you’re neglecting to play video games 😂

Sometimes you're Partying with Mario. Others you recieve a message on Xbox Live saying "HA, now you'll pay! I hope they kill you, you damn red shell cheating bass!" a few minutes before you get SWATed while playing World of Kefflings online by someone who's salty that you cut them off a couple times that week in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

No, seriously. That literally just happened to me, the local SWAT team just left. I hadn't even known we had a swat team here until now. I saw red lights through the blinds, and thought it was the pizza I'd ordered. So I was rather surprised when I open the door just as SWAT was about to break it down.

Also, ow... Those battering rams HURT if they hit you by accident. As I was dealing with the police I convinced them to let me check the message I'd recently gotten on Xbox Live since I had a bad feeling about it. The police were not amused by the message since it indicated they'd been crank called by someone that was trying to get me killed.

If this is the reason why we don't have any news from RETRO STUDIOS since Tropical Freeze, I swear I will never forgive Nintendo... The RAREWARE period still sticks in my throat...

@Cobalt I don't get it?

@OorWullie That's his thing, being purposefully obscure and vague so it seems he knows something we don't do. But he won't explain what it is about

@Cobalt Nintendo is shrinking. Maybe it's time to support them instead of launching another smear campaign against them if you want to save the japanese industry. Because Sony clearly showed they don't care about it and only care about big budget western games.

@OorWullie

Klobrille (a guy who got a lot of infos right several times) said that Microsoft has view on several studios (apparently Obsidian Entertainment is close to be bought) BUT he said that there is a TEXAN studio that could be the next one sort of... :/

So, Retro Studio is not the only studio from Texas but when you cross the fact that we have no news from RETRO STUDIOS for a long time, hummmm it's like it smells not really good...

I hope that I'm wrong but it's a possibility that RETRO STUDIO could become a MicroSoft studio in a near future... like RareWare back then...

@Cobalt Thanks for the explanation. A kind request/word of advice: if you would include this info with your initial post, you'll probably come across a lot friendlier.

In a weird way it actually wouldn't be too surprising if Nintendo did sell Retro Studios. I was kinda wondering recently whether this may happen and again, wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo sold them. The problem is, Nintendo isn't exactly big on internal development teams and as budgets and resources go up, the number of games they create will go down.

There are loads of dev studios in texas in different sizes.

But I do think Retro has problems, it was a very long time we heard about their new IP, but nothing seems to have come from it. I think they are either in dev hell or the new game has been scrapped.

@Therad It was rumoured to be 2 games - a ghost/horror game that was cancelled due to development problems and a Star Fox racer which has all but disappeared since the "leaks" earlier this year. Something is definitely seriously wrong.

@FragRed Or...we dont take leaks as fact and those two things maybe never existed period?

Whatever Retro is working on will come eventually. I mean we didn't know what Monolith Soft was working on for years then XCX showed up just at random, and then XC2 happened 2 years later.

Just because you don't hear anything doesn't mean the studio is dead.

I mean for God's sake we didn't hear about the Last Guardian for the best part of a freaking decade and no one was shouting that studio was dead.

Let them work on whatever it is they are ACTUALLY making.

Plus if Microsoft is going to buy a studio in Texas, dunno, Panic Button is there too.

2005: Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, it can all be fake so double check on it elsewhere.

2018: OH MY GOD HAVE YOU SEEN THIS INCONSPICUOUS BIT OF NEWS THAT MAY POSSIBLY LEAD TO SOMETHING THAT I'M NOT SURE IS EVEN CORRELATED???

ftfy

@Therad Lel true. But I remember back in school during that time period where our teachers drummed in our heads that the Internet could lead to absolutely nothing.

@ReaderRagfish I mean with how most of reviews are now, I think your brother was ahead of the curve by a good decade or so...

@ReaderRagfish Never forget Sonic Unleashed (a fantastic game) getting lower scores than both Sonic 06 and Sonic Free Riders...

That was the moment when I realized that reviewers can be nonsense.

Wii U games vs. Switch ports of Wii U games is the perfect example of review nonsense, especially Tropical Freeze. While the Switch version of Wii U games are better, the Wii U version shouldn't have been so low in the first place.

@FaeKnight Uhm, wait, what?!?! What the heck happened?

@FragRed @Therad At this point I'm not certain how anyone can draw any conclusion other than that Retro is dead/doomed/slowly sinking. Too much talent left, too long since any notable titles, and almost not mention of the studio at all, ever. I haven't even been seeing them on credits for helping out with other games like we do for Monolith. It's been an entire console generation at this point and they have produced nothing of commercial value. That can't be good for their survival.

@DarthNocturnal At least Prime 3 didn't fall into the Radiant Dawn error. "Easy" = Normal, "Normal" = Hard, "Hard" = Lunatic with no weapon triangle and having to count enemy movement manually