Will Retro’s Wii U Game Be Revealed Soon?

The UK’s Official Nintendo Magazine published an interview with Nintendo’s Hiro Yamada about Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and other select titles. But embedded in there is word on when we may finally hear about Retro Studios’ still-unknown Wii U exclusive.

When Donkey Kong Country Returns was released on Wii in 2010, it was the very first time Retro Studios walked away from the Metroid Prime series. The magazine’s interviewer therefore asked a rather obvious question about the 3DS port of the game: why isn’t Retro making it? “Does [Retro’s unannounced project] involve a certain bounty hunter?” the interviewer asked, referring of course to Samus.

“I wonder what kind of game it is?” Yamada answered. “I hope to introduce it to you in the not so distant future.”

Nintendo fans have long speculated about what Retro Studios has been up to – it helped out on the Nintendo 3DS version of Mario Kart following Donkey Kong Country Returns – but we still don’t have a firm answer.

As long ago as late 2011, we reported that Retro may work on Zelda, which is still possible. After all, Retro didn’t invent Metroid, but rather helped recreate it, and the studio is more than capable of doing the same for The Legend of Zelda. We further speculated that Retro may be working on another Donkey Kong game, or perhaps more Metroid, the latter being the most obvious answer to what the Austin, Texas-based company could be toiling away on.

And of course, back at E3, we asked Reggie Fils-Aime himself what Retro was working on. While being evasive, he confirmed that “the team [at Retro] is hard at work,” while following it up that he’s “not gonna tell [us] what they’re working on.”

What do you want Retro Studios to be working on? And when do you think the game will be announced? E3 seems like a pretty safe bet.

Colin Moriarty is a Senior Editor in charge of IGN’s PlayStation coverage. You can follow him on Twitter and IGN and learn just how sad the life of a New York Islanders and New York Jets fan can be.

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