Metroid Prime devs leave Nintendo for EA

I didn't see this on the forums today so I'm just bringing it to you guys attention. Apparently the people who directed the Metroid Prime series at Retro Studios left Retro to start their own company which is headed by EA. From the sounds of things they wanted to be in a company where small teams get to make big, amazing looking games on the console of their choice. They probably didn't like the fact that Metroid Prime didn't sell very well but was an amazing game in the GC days. The story can be found at http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20246 .

To me it personally feels like betrayal for them to leave Nintendo like this but at the same time now Nintendo or Retro can hire people who want to exclusively develop for just Nintendo. I'm boycotting games from their new company by all means.

How do you guys feel about this?

that doesnt mean nintendo will be ruinrd naruto ,

its good news, what else do you want metroid prime 3 ended the series,

its time for nintendo to work on sequals to these games

fzero

stunt race fx-was about to have a n64 game but got canned well nows their time to release one

star fox

1080

wave race

marioparty 9

etc

as well as the new ips

exicite truck giest-still new bc it hasnt had a sequal

disaster day of crisis

kirby and so on

but thATS BESIDE THE POINT ,

IM WAITING ON TIMESPLITTERS 4 QUANTUM OF SOLACE007 AND THE NEXT 007 GAME THAT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TO BE RELEASED IN 09 and i hope its a follow up to goldeneye or goldeneye it self ,

id love that on wii 360 , ds-can be port of original

i hope the next 007 game is good as well as the one coming in november 4 08

then the condult as well as wii motion plus and animal crossing , wwe 2009 to many games to care abour this . rare left people made an even bigger deal , but guess what after rare left all of its good teams went to other companies the most widely known one is free radical one that is developing timesplitters 4 and that sure will be good since the last ones were

I didn't see this on the forums today so I'm just bringing it to you guys attention. Apparently the people who directed the Metroid Prime series at Retro Studios left Retro to start their own company which is headed by EA. From the sounds of things they wanted to be in a company where small teams get to make big, amazing looking games on the console of their choice. They probably didn't like the fact that Metroid Prime didn't sell very well but was an amazing game in the GC days. The story can be found at http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20246 .

To me it personally feels like betrayal for them to leave Nintendo like this but at the same time now Nintendo or Retro can hire people who want to exclusively develop for just Nintendo. I'm boycotting games from their new company by all means.

How do you guys feel about this?

livinitup01

thank god they dont have 007 games, i also bought the god father, but ya , that and the sims, the only games i liked fro m them , what ever else they have like nfs since prostreet , that series was dull to me, no cops and stupid ,

it's not the end of the world.

Armature/EA's situation is just like Suda (Grasshopper)/Ubisoft's deal they had but deeper.

Armature is deving the games so they are solid, and EA takes over to polish and get ready for distribution/marketing allowing Armature to work on new products.

I'm wondering what Nintendo will do with Metroid now. Will they hand it off to another 2nd party? Will they keep it in house?

I have faith with them, so it's just a waiting game now.

They left Retro a while ago, we just had no clue where they were going. Good for them though. I doubt they wanted to make Metroid for the rest of their lives. They're free now.JAB991

Same thing with Bungie. People don't want to work on the same games all their lives. Good to see them trying something new and doing what they want.

To me it personally feels like betrayal for them to leave Nintendo like this but at the same time now Nintendo or Retro can hire people who want to exclusively develop for just Nintendo. I'm boycotting games from their new company by all means.

...This is a serious condender for my new sig.

From what I understand it is similar to the Valve/EA partnership.

EA is not messing with Valve's games, but EA has the resources Valve doesn't.

And just because the directors of Retro are gone does not mean Retro is ruined...

I'm wondering what Nintendo will do with Metroid now. Will they hand it off to another 2nd party? Will they keep it in house?

danger_ranger95

Retro Studios is a first-party developer since it is 100% owned by Nintendo.

They are owned by EA. LOL thats like dropping your standards from 1st class plane tickets to sleeping with LLAMA's in the luggage hole.

They'll be sorry! EA are known for messing up potentially good games.

If Nintendo, EAD or one of their own Japan-based studios actually made Metroid this time it'd probably be even better than Retro's version. For instance, if the studio that did Galaxy made Metroid how great would that be? I seems like that studio has game veterans as well as a lot of new ideas to put in games.

Retro did an excellent job with Prime and Corruption (After playing Echoes then Prime 1 I can say I like most of Prime more than Echoes just because Tallon IV and the Chozo seem way more appealing). Maybe Nintendo can breathe life back into Metroid because I'd have for the franchise to stop here.

What will become of Retro? Will they hire new people and take on new projects other than Metroid? Will Nintendo develop Metroid themselves and let Retro re-create other Nintendo games? This story feels extremely incomplete so I don't know what's gonna happen.