Random Gaming Talk

[simiansmarts]

What's the point of Retro taking up resources to never develop any games? 

Disband the whole studio and use the capital and resources to actually make games.

Retro Studios attempted to get a new IP off the ground during the Switch 1 generation but the game never quite came together so Nintendo cancelled it and locked them down to making Metroid Prime games for the foreseeable future. It's probably for the best as it should ensure stable work for the future. 
 
If you look at how Nintendo's dev teams operate, they focus on one or two main game series and try to get a new entry out for every system since Nintendo games are usually evergreen sellers. I imagine once Prime 4 is out, Retro will either move on to Prime 5 or go back and finish remastering the rest of the original trilogy.