Originally Posted by antonz

It is a waste of resources from the one studio Nintendo has that can do western style games. Even if they didn't do Metroid they could have done a different Genre of game.

At this point practically half the library of the Wii U is platformers. Yes we know that platformers tend to sell better on Nintendo hardware hence why they show up there but when you put out so many in such a short time you drive people off.

Rare should have been working on something fresh that could introduce a rarely used genre not yet another platformer and stupidly enough not another Donkey Kong right after porting the last to handhelds. The franchise isn't that popular to be releasing so much so soon.

All of this. Yes.

And I think this is the important distinction. I don't think anybody thinks Tropical Freeze is going to be a bad game. But, from a business and tactical perspective, having Retro work on another Donkey Kong game is about the most ill-thought decision Nintendo could have made. It really makes no sense outside of "Well, the other one was a decent seller...Let's spam it!"