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Check out this latest rumour - apparently, Activision have just bought Rare. These are currently rumours, so here's your challenge - go find me some evidence! Scour news sites, find me some info! Help the News Monkey break this story to the world! Report back here and let me know if you find out anything, ANYTHING at all about this story.
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Check out this latest rumour - apparently, Activision have just bought Rare. These are currently rumours, so here's your challenge - go find me some evidence! Scour news sites, find me some info! Help the News Monkey break this story to the world! Report back here and let me know if you find out anything, ANYTHING at all about this story.
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GamesRadar are reporting an unconfirmed rumour that Rare is in the process of being bought by Activision.
According to the report, such a move would see Rare working on PlayStation 2 and Xbox as well as GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Rare is regarded by many as the best developer in the UK and is behind a string of classics on NES, SNES and N64. Losing Rare as a second-party developer would obviously be a huge blow to Nintendo.
We should stress that this is still very much rumour. As soon as we get firm information either way, we'll bring it to you. Adding a bit of grist to the rumour mill though, the Stamper brothers have done something similar before - selling the equally highly-regarded Ultimate Play The Game brandname to 80s publisher US Gold.
Rare also raised eyebrows last year when their Christmas card featured PlayStation 2s and Xbox' being unwrapped alongside a GameCube.
Taken from:
http://www2.cex.co.uk/
cex_feature.asp?ct=15&id=5525(spaces)
It is unconfirmed, but Computer eXchange is normally correct!!
According to the report, such a move would see Rare working on PlayStation 2 and Xbox as well as GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Rare is regarded by many as the best developer in the UK and is behind a string of classics on NES, SNES and N64. Losing Rare as a second-party developer would obviously be a huge blow to Nintendo.
We should stress that this is still very much rumour. As soon as we get firm information either way, we'll bring it to you. Adding a bit of grist to the rumour mill though, the Stamper brothers have done something similar before - selling the equally highly-regarded Ultimate Play The Game brandname to 80s publisher US Gold.
Rare also raised eyebrows last year when their Christmas card featured PlayStation 2s and Xbox' being unwrapped alongside a GameCube.
Taken from:
http://www2.cex.co.uk/
cex_feature.asp?ct=15&id=5525(spaces)
It is unconfirmed, but Computer eXchange is normally correct!!
Silent85 wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> Boz wrote:
> i think the amount of replys this topic has created shows how big
> rare
> are and why are they this big because of nintendo don`t believe this
> partnership can be broken
>
> Because it can't RARE will be ruined if they leave Nintendo.
>
>
> Correction they will be bigger than you can possibly imagine
> multi-platform
Rare haven't released a game for a YEAR more than a year in fact, RARE is a large development house made up of several teams unlike lets say Free RAdical DEsign. They simply make low income and so they need big titles to stay alive, good selling games. Yes Banjo and Perfect Dark sell loads but those games wouldn't be nearly as good without Nintendo's in house coders EAD, secondly RARE's BIGGEST game is Donkey Kong, without Donkey Kong RARE's income will decrease dramatically! and Star Fox will probably be the second largest!
The fact is Activision can't afford a company that takes too long to make games, delays 24/7 and without their biggest game names... they lose their value. Nintendo pratically encourage long development periods and are willing to fund it, are Activision as willing?
> Dringo wrote:
> Boz wrote:
> i think the amount of replys this topic has created shows how big
> rare
> are and why are they this big because of nintendo don`t believe this
> partnership can be broken
>
> Because it can't RARE will be ruined if they leave Nintendo.
>
>
> Correction they will be bigger than you can possibly imagine
> multi-platform
Rare haven't released a game for a YEAR more than a year in fact, RARE is a large development house made up of several teams unlike lets say Free RAdical DEsign. They simply make low income and so they need big titles to stay alive, good selling games. Yes Banjo and Perfect Dark sell loads but those games wouldn't be nearly as good without Nintendo's in house coders EAD, secondly RARE's BIGGEST game is Donkey Kong, without Donkey Kong RARE's income will decrease dramatically! and Star Fox will probably be the second largest!
The fact is Activision can't afford a company that takes too long to make games, delays 24/7 and without their biggest game names... they lose their value. Nintendo pratically encourage long development periods and are willing to fund it, are Activision as willing?
Somehow I can't quite picture Activision buying Rare. Maybe if it was Sony or Konami, but Activision?
Dringo wrote:
> Boz wrote:
> i think the amount of replys this topic has created shows how big
> rare
> are and why are they this big because of nintendo don`t believe this
> partnership can be broken
>
> Because it can't RARE will be ruined if they leave Nintendo.
Correction they will be bigger than you can possibly imagine multi-platform
> Boz wrote:
> i think the amount of replys this topic has created shows how big
> rare
> are and why are they this big because of nintendo don`t believe this
> partnership can be broken
>
> Because it can't RARE will be ruined if they leave Nintendo.
Correction they will be bigger than you can possibly imagine multi-platform
Boz wrote:
> i think the amount of replys this topic has created shows how big rare
> are and why are they this big because of nintendo don`t believe this
> partnership can be broken
Because it can't RARE will be ruined if they leave Nintendo.
> i think the amount of replys this topic has created shows how big rare
> are and why are they this big because of nintendo don`t believe this
> partnership can be broken
Because it can't RARE will be ruined if they leave Nintendo.
Well, I bought an Xbox - so *anything* is possible... :-)
well, i really hope rare hasn't been bought, but a lotta these rumours become reality these days. it would be a shame, although it wouldn't affect the gamecube really, as nintendo would still own a stake and every rare game would likely be first out on it. however, i don't wanna see rare games on another console. not that i don't believe they'd succeed, but i'm a nintendo fan and i want them to have the exclusives. anyway, no1 can deny that ps2 gamers aren't as well tuned in to gaming as gamecube (to be) owners. the fact is, these sorta people don't deserve rare quality. these are the same people who slagged me in first year cuz rare were called rare.
i'm already preparing my denial if it happens. rare don't always make brilliant games, just 85% of the time. exceptions are killer instint, banjo kazooie and tooie as well as donker kong 64. one thing i'd love to see would be miyamoto take DK back and make a real quality platformer outta the franchise.
i'm already preparing my denial if it happens. rare don't always make brilliant games, just 85% of the time. exceptions are killer instint, banjo kazooie and tooie as well as donker kong 64. one thing i'd love to see would be miyamoto take DK back and make a real quality platformer outta the franchise.
I've got some interesting points to say on this topic. Me'sa been talkin' to industry insiders today. But I just woke up as I only had 4 hrs sleep last night, and I don't feel like writing much at the moment, so I'll write a topic about it tomorrow!
be interested! Be VERY interested!!!
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be interested! Be VERY interested!!!
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