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And Sony make money off of every DVD sold by Microsoft.

hehe, its just one big money circle isnt it?

E3 soon!

Although Microsoft profit from every Rare game sold.

So effectively Nintendo is earning them money.

Microsoft don't actually make GBA games as I'm sure you realise. THQ are a current company that already produces GBA software and so Microsoft exploit them.

Microsoft have nothing to lose from this, Rare support their GBA team independantly, RARE's fan base continues on Nintendo's platform sparking desire to buy the X-box too and they also make easy money with minimal effort.

Sadly Rare are of course suffering badly on the X-box, Grabbed by the Gholies and enjoyable at most title did very badly.

Unless RARE can turn things around it is likely Microsoft may have to take control of their output. In other words reducing the Banjo's and other stunning platform/RPG titles.

So even buying an X-box for RARE titles will mean you won't get the legendary 64 developer.

Nintendo probably don't let them publish it themselves as it would have Microsoft and Nintendo on the same game box.

I would have thought Microsoft would have published games like Banjo then, instead of THQ, no? :-\

That is possible. They have made three GBA games. The Banjo Kazooie game, Sabrewulf and the port of Donkey Kong country. They are also going to release Banjo pilot, DKC2 and a game called Mr Pants in the future. I think that they will continue to make games for Nintendos portable machines, unless Microsoft decides to expand their market.

So might we be seeing some Rare DS games then?

Microsoft Games Studio's are a license developer for the Nintendo Gameboy.

Rare and Bungie are two developers that have paid attention to the publisher.

No, just the Xbox, Windows PC and internet.