Originally Posted by jonno394

We've had nsmbu nslu and super Mario 3d world un the space of a year. Thats plenty of Nintendo platform games. Its not exactly a genre that the Wii u is lacking given that we'll probably get dk and yoshi next year.

True Nintendo diversity.

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.

Retro 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.

These two posts sum up how I feel. Not to mention the ridiculous theories people where making about what special surprise game Retro could be working on and then the meltdowns when it was revealed to be DK just highlighted the disappointment even more. I mean the thread title when it was announced was something like "Retro is working on fucking DK" and that stayed up there iirc.