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How many more rumours do we have to face? First we get the Rare christmas card that everyone takes as 'oh, look, that obviously means Rare are going multi-format', then we have an April fool that Shigsy is leaving Nintendo, and now there are rumours of Rare being bought up by Activision!
Why are the rumours about Nintendo always rumours that, if true, would be bad for the company? I don't believe that Activision have bought out Rare, Nintendo would have to be stupid to let that happen!
But why do Nintendo always get runours that are bad? These spread like wildfire. And one minute loyal PS2 fan#1 is saying "Ah, all your silly games on N64 were for kiddies" and the next minute he's saying "ah, cool, looks like Rare are going multi-format!" and you're left wondering why he would want to play games from Rare, the developers of 'kiddie' N64 games. Shigsy leaving Nintendo was a dubious rumour, and suspected April Fool from the word go, but now we get this rumour.
Rare being bought up? Again, I have serious doubts about the truth of this. If Nintendo are confident enough to place major mascots such as Donkey Kong and Starfox in the hands of Rare, they must be quite sure that they are going to have a long term relationship with Rare, as they already have had with Rare developing the Donkey Kong Country and Land series on the SNES and the Game Boy. Also, apart from Nintendo, Rare are probably the best reason to buy a GameCube. Rare games are some of the highest quality in the gaming industry, and can usually rival the efforts of even Nintendo. And I think Nintendo must realise this by now, so would be wary of anyone else trying to muscle in on Rare.
Anyway, there's enough rambling for one post, we'll have to wait and see if the rumour is true, but I have severe reservations about it holding any water.
Why are the rumours about Nintendo always rumours that, if true, would be bad for the company? I don't believe that Activision have bought out Rare, Nintendo would have to be stupid to let that happen!
But why do Nintendo always get runours that are bad? These spread like wildfire. And one minute loyal PS2 fan#1 is saying "Ah, all your silly games on N64 were for kiddies" and the next minute he's saying "ah, cool, looks like Rare are going multi-format!" and you're left wondering why he would want to play games from Rare, the developers of 'kiddie' N64 games. Shigsy leaving Nintendo was a dubious rumour, and suspected April Fool from the word go, but now we get this rumour.
Rare being bought up? Again, I have serious doubts about the truth of this. If Nintendo are confident enough to place major mascots such as Donkey Kong and Starfox in the hands of Rare, they must be quite sure that they are going to have a long term relationship with Rare, as they already have had with Rare developing the Donkey Kong Country and Land series on the SNES and the Game Boy. Also, apart from Nintendo, Rare are probably the best reason to buy a GameCube. Rare games are some of the highest quality in the gaming industry, and can usually rival the efforts of even Nintendo. And I think Nintendo must realise this by now, so would be wary of anyone else trying to muscle in on Rare.
Anyway, there's enough rambling for one post, we'll have to wait and see if the rumour is true, but I have severe reservations about it holding any water.
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Alex -vampire hunter wrote:
> What you all forget ,like many, is that Rare will NEVER develop for
> someone else as Rare are part owned by Nintendo
About 40%+ I believe.
> What you all forget ,like many, is that Rare will NEVER develop for
> someone else as Rare are part owned by Nintendo
About 40%+ I believe.
What you all forget ,like many, is that Rare will NEVER develop for someone else as Rare are part owned by Nintendo
Yeah but did ne1 see the christmas tree christmas card?
It had a gamecube xbox and ps2 shaped boxes
Ill email ne1 it if vey want
It had a gamecube xbox and ps2 shaped boxes
Ill email ne1 it if vey want
I doubt Nintendo would let Rare be bought out. They would really, really want Rare more than Activision and I somehow reckon they wouldn't care how much they paid considering what Goldeneye did for the N64. I think these rumours may have stemmed from Microsaoft, who have started rumours of a Christma 2002 GameCube release before and Microsoft were in the story....
The guy who posted last before me.
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Cooky wrote:
> Part of what you said ain't totally true!
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> ;)
Who were you talkin to?
> Part of what you said ain't totally true!
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> ;)
Who were you talkin to?
Go read FOG Prime!
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Part of what you said ain't totally true!
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It is amasingly, spectacularly, stupendusly unlikely. Partly because of the relationship rare and ninty have with each other, very close ( not in a romantic way!). also rare is part owned by ninty so unless it would have benifited nintendo in some bizzare and comical way, I dont think they would of botherd. Trust.
I'm trying to look up about Runge-Kutta and Euler's equations of motion so that I can create a decent particle system at the moment thought!
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