Anyone have insider access that can tell us what the lowdown is on Rare?
Anyone have insider access that can tell us what the lowdown is on Rare?
I was just going to make a thread asking the same thing.
I could probably help you out there, but when I tried to look all I got was some kind of error. I'll check again and get back to you guys on that...
Boys and girls, here ya go, the edited story on Rare:
IGN claims that MS has purchased a 100% interest in Rare.
The announcement hasn't been made yet because Nintendo and Rare are still negotiating the ownership of key franchises like Perfect Dark.
I like, I like. Now to see how this pans out...Quote:
The company's de-emphasized focus on a second-party model and its new partnerships with Namco, Sega, Capcom and others exemplifies its change in development philosophy, and leaves no room for an expensive investment in Rare.
I can't see Nintendo ever letting Rare make Perfect Dark games on another console, and please Nintendo hold on to Blast Corps too! Blast Corps 2 on Cube would roxor my soxors
To the best of my knowledge, Rare published Perfect Dark and owns all the rights to it. If you go to the official site you can see that the name is copyrighted Rare. So... I would expect a new PD on Xbox.Quote:
Originally posted by SpoDaddy
I can't see Nintendo ever letting Rare make Perfect Dark games on another console, and please Nintendo hold on to Blast Corps too! Blast Corps 2 on Cube would roxor my soxors
There's a story on PlanetGameCube which also says all this nonsense.
This could be good for Rare. Focus on new themes and new characters and I think they can come up with some good stuff on Xbox.
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i dont see Nintendo Letting Rare have any of the characters like Conker, Banjo, or Perfect Dark or the tons of other ones
i think maybe i could see them letting go of Conker but i dont know Nintendo is like a greedy old man that holds tight to his money (characters for nintendo) till the day he dies
as far as their games go on the box it says Nintendo and Rare own the rights to PD though it could be just rare now
but most the other ones are Nintendo owned
i think PD may be the only one Rare owns its selfs
I'm under the impression that Rare and Nintendo jointly own characters and franchises that Rare developed and Nintendo published. Including the extended Kong family. And that means that each company could block the other's use - which would be a total waste. One will buy the other out.
Burgundy is right, except in the case of the Donkey Kong franchise, which Nintendo always kept exclusive rights to. The only Donkey Kong related things Rare owns are the code they wrote for the games, not the license. And to my knowledge PD is still co-owned by both, so no PD for xbox unless Nintendo ok's it