Tidligere Retro Studios-ansat kalder forholdet til Nintendo "usundt"

Retro Studios har i årtier arbejdet eksklusivt sammen med Nintendo, og lige nu er de i fuld gang med at lægge sidste hånd på Metroid Prime 4 efter hvad der tyder til at have været et besværligt udviklingsforløb.

Men ifølge en tidligere ansat fra Retro, så er forholdet mellem Retro og Nintendo måske ikke helt sundt. Om ikke andet har det det ikke altid været det. Tidligere World Artist Nate Purkypile har fortalt Kiwi Talkz podcastet at forholdet mellem Retro og Nintendo var lettere "usundt" under udviklingen af Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

"I have never liked working with publishers or anything, but this was a whole other level of micromanagement. Like, no way! In my opinion, if you're not directly working on the game, go away. You can give feedback and guidance, but I don't think you should be telling the devs what to do. You don't have all the proper context or framing to actually be giving these critiques and I think it's completely not how things should be made. Not to say that Metroid didn't turn out great, but it didn't turn out great because some shoulder pad was shifted slightly. I think that's kind of an unhealthy relationship."

Retro har jo, siden Corruption udkom i 2007, fortsat med at arbejde med Nintendo, og har leveret succeser. Hvad synes du dog om Purkypiles ord?