Not much of a surprise, but just so you know.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/37045/retro-studios-not-assisting-mario-kart-8-development
Retro Studios is not helping with Mario Kart 8, according to a Nintendo representative. The representative did add the caveat "not to [his] knowledge" but also expressed doubt that there was even a chance that Retro Studios helped out.
The developers of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze previously helped with the creation of the retro tracks in Mario Kart 7 on the 3DS as well as the Donkey Kong Country Returns-themed stage DK Jungle. Retro Studios reportedly finished Tropical Freeze at the end of last year. They did not follow that up with helping bring Mario Kart 8 to the finish line.
One of the classic tracks redone for Mario Kart 8 is DK Jungle, though it's likely that Retro Studios had little to no involvement with the updates to the track.
Mario Kart 8 comes out on May 30 in North America.
So we're actually at the point where we need to reassure fans that Nintendo isn't wasting Retro Studios on code-for-hire work that any idiot with some basic game development experience could do?It sounds like someone asked a Nintendo rep and this was the answer. Nintendo didn't issue an official press release or anything so this is hardly an act of reassurance and more like a basic answer to a very simple question. And I don't really see what your issue with that was anyway. It isn't like the entirety of Retro Studios dropped everything they were doing to help a few tracks with Mario Kart 7. You really should consider doing some reading before immediately reaching for the bottom shelf with your negativity. Here's a direct quote from Michael Kelbaugh from E3 last year:
"We’re pretty much on one major project at a time. We do a game every two years or three years. In the first year of that, we have some extra bandwidth, so sometimes… We helped out with Mario Kart 7. We helped Monster Games do the 3DS version. Sometimes we’ll have a little bit of extra bandwidth to help out other entities at Nintendo. We really feel strongly about helping out Nintendo as a whole, so if we have time, we’ll do that. Do we have the bandwidth to do two major projects at once? I don’t think so. A big project and a little project at the same time, we can do that."No offense, but I'll take the President of Retro Studio's word before listening to your negative conjecture.
And I don't really see what your issue with that was anyway. It isn't like the entirety of Retro Studios dropped everything they were doing to help a few tracks with Mario Kart 7.
And it is equally absurd for you to state that those extra people could be working on a game "that actually excited people." What does that even mean?I think it's fairly obvious what that means. Not another 2d platfotmer.
I think it's fairly obvious what that means. Not another 2d platfotmer.You're killing me, Smalls. Read the sentence after what you quoted. Broodwars doesn't speak for everyone, but his phrasing comes off as such. Considering how popular Donkey Kong Country Returns was, it's odd and probably flat-out wrong to assume people wouldn't be excited for a sequel. I don't see how anyone could rightly make that claim. Additionaly, "not another 2D platformer" is still incredibly vague and just barely more specific than "something people are excited about." It's lose-lose when it comes to Retro Studios. Whatever they make, you can bet that someone is going to call it a waste of their talent.
