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And I don't care what ANY of you say. Rareware (Unless Nintendo buy them outright) will develop for the X-Box and PS2!
I have saw enough, too much to be precise that points to Rareware going Multi format.
Over the previous months I have took the situation on board my quite fantastic piece of kit which is my Brain, if you would like to know; and saw everything, every darn thing- hinting that a statement is very imminent on their decision to go to the Dark Side.
First it was those darn Christmas cards, yes you know what Im on about. Last Christmas Rare just didn't release those out to the Gaming press just for the sake of it, they where hinting at something. It wasn't a joke either or just Ninty Dirty tricks, I don't believe it. I think it was a clear message to Nintendo, a little nudge that the company was thinking of Multi format, now who would bet against me being wrong?
To make matters worse for Ninties, Rareware had everyone geared up for E3 for some shock announcement either way. Sonyphiles and Gatey Philes where expecting an announcement on a decision to develop for their beloved system's, Ninties on the other hand where hoping for Rare to show to the world the mighty Kameo: Elements of Power, which looked so good in Demonstration form, and of course Ninties where hoping for a glimpse of a running Perfect Dark Zero.
But... But... Rareware where absent from E3. Why?? Why did they not even show their creative faces at the event?, where they afraid of Nintendo's reaction?, has Nintendo done something to stop them making announcement? Only Time will tell on that one.
Either way,Something is SERIOUSLY up in Twycross, there is some sort of commotion going on, I mean Rare, one of the greatest games developers on Earth was absent at E3, something seriously is wrong there!.
To top my suspicions off, Rare will not even deny that they are going Multi Format, even Nintendo will not even deny it- all we seem to hear and read about is "At present, the current relationship between Rareware and Nintendo has not changed" They NEVER mention anything else and its the same as Rare, a simple straight forward YES or NO would be ample.
And I'm a frequent reader of Edge magazine too, if you read the mag yourself you will know about the developer's adverts in the mag, for recruitments. Previously before Christmas and the 5 years previous, we got Adverts like "To work on Nintendo systems GAMECUBE and GBA" and what do we get now? Nothing mentioning Gamecube at all!!
Its heading in the Multiformat direction, this whole Rare thing. wheather you like it or not.
Perhaps the quietness at E3 was due to discussions with Nintendo and the long term future? Who knows? But time will tell!.
I have saw enough, too much to be precise that points to Rareware going Multi format.
Over the previous months I have took the situation on board my quite fantastic piece of kit which is my Brain, if you would like to know; and saw everything, every darn thing- hinting that a statement is very imminent on their decision to go to the Dark Side.
First it was those darn Christmas cards, yes you know what Im on about. Last Christmas Rare just didn't release those out to the Gaming press just for the sake of it, they where hinting at something. It wasn't a joke either or just Ninty Dirty tricks, I don't believe it. I think it was a clear message to Nintendo, a little nudge that the company was thinking of Multi format, now who would bet against me being wrong?
To make matters worse for Ninties, Rareware had everyone geared up for E3 for some shock announcement either way. Sonyphiles and Gatey Philes where expecting an announcement on a decision to develop for their beloved system's, Ninties on the other hand where hoping for Rare to show to the world the mighty Kameo: Elements of Power, which looked so good in Demonstration form, and of course Ninties where hoping for a glimpse of a running Perfect Dark Zero.
But... But... Rareware where absent from E3. Why?? Why did they not even show their creative faces at the event?, where they afraid of Nintendo's reaction?, has Nintendo done something to stop them making announcement? Only Time will tell on that one.
Either way,Something is SERIOUSLY up in Twycross, there is some sort of commotion going on, I mean Rare, one of the greatest games developers on Earth was absent at E3, something seriously is wrong there!.
To top my suspicions off, Rare will not even deny that they are going Multi Format, even Nintendo will not even deny it- all we seem to hear and read about is "At present, the current relationship between Rareware and Nintendo has not changed" They NEVER mention anything else and its the same as Rare, a simple straight forward YES or NO would be ample.
And I'm a frequent reader of Edge magazine too, if you read the mag yourself you will know about the developer's adverts in the mag, for recruitments. Previously before Christmas and the 5 years previous, we got Adverts like "To work on Nintendo systems GAMECUBE and GBA" and what do we get now? Nothing mentioning Gamecube at all!!
Its heading in the Multiformat direction, this whole Rare thing. wheather you like it or not.
Perhaps the quietness at E3 was due to discussions with Nintendo and the long term future? Who knows? But time will tell!.
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Whitestripes wrote:
> The team making FF games for the GC is seperate and is funded by
> Nintendo.
NO! My point was that the Square got around the fact that Sony owns a majority of the company by setting up a seperate company that could make games for the GC, and moving a lot of their staff back and forth to this company. The FF team itself is just a part of Square!
Rare could do EXACTLY the same thing!
In any case, Ninty's exclusivity contract with Rare has ENDED! They are allowed to make games for anyone!
Sonic
> The team making FF games for the GC is seperate and is funded by
> Nintendo.
NO! My point was that the Square got around the fact that Sony owns a majority of the company by setting up a seperate company that could make games for the GC, and moving a lot of their staff back and forth to this company. The FF team itself is just a part of Square!
Rare could do EXACTLY the same thing!
In any case, Ninty's exclusivity contract with Rare has ENDED! They are allowed to make games for anyone!
Sonic
er-no wrote:
> LOL@TOPIC
>
> It won't happen because Nintendo own 62% of Rare
Nintendo do not own 62% of Rare.
> LOL@TOPIC
>
> It won't happen because Nintendo own 62% of Rare
Nintendo do not own 62% of Rare.
The team making FF games for the GC is seperate and is funded by Nintendo.
lol@er-no
Square are majority owned by Sony (since the death of the FF film!) yet are developing GC games by setting up some stupid loophole company. Who's to say that Rare can't do the same.
Anyway, the excluivity contract that Rare had with Ninty expired a few months back (I think Dringo pointed that out), and so Rare have no legal obligation to stay on Ninty consoles.
Sonic
Square are majority owned by Sony (since the death of the FF film!) yet are developing GC games by setting up some stupid loophole company. Who's to say that Rare can't do the same.
Anyway, the excluivity contract that Rare had with Ninty expired a few months back (I think Dringo pointed that out), and so Rare have no legal obligation to stay on Ninty consoles.
Sonic
I thought Nintendo owned 49% of Rare. Anyway, if Rare don't go multi-format I won't feel gutted over it or anything while if they do, its a bonus.
If Rare do make the decision to go multiformat though, I can see it being a big blow to Nintendo.
If Rare do make the decision to go multiformat though, I can see it being a big blow to Nintendo.
LOL@TOPIC
It won't happen because Nintendo own 62% of Rare which means they have director rights over what happens.
However, what could happen is that Rare work alongside other companies that Nintendo now work with like Square and Konami.
It won't happen because Nintendo own 62% of Rare which means they have director rights over what happens.
However, what could happen is that Rare work alongside other companies that Nintendo now work with like Square and Konami.
Dringo wrote:
> Well, RARE aren't all Nintendo have, in fact only one RARE game this
> year and its the year with the "biggest software line up
> ever!"
>
> Does that tell you anything?
Yeah, it tells me that Nintendo haven't got much coming out this year. ;-))
> Well, RARE aren't all Nintendo have, in fact only one RARE game this
> year and its the year with the "biggest software line up
> ever!"
>
> Does that tell you anything?
Yeah, it tells me that Nintendo haven't got much coming out this year. ;-))
It tells me that Rare are refusing to bow down to Nintendo's short-but-sweet policy and brewing up something REALLY special...
Rare rule, no matter who they devellop for.
Rare rule, no matter who they devellop for.
Well, RARE aren't all Nintendo have, in fact only one RARE game this year and its the year with the "biggest software line up ever!"
Does that tell you anything?
Does that tell you anything?
All the signs point to Rare going multi-format and I think it's highly likely that they will be. But Rare are the sort of company that love to leave gamers guessing, there's one thing for sure it's getting them a hell of a lot of publicity.
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