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"Hold your breath for the end of the month.."

Cube Europe have reported a rumour that Microsoft have bought Rare for $350 million. It's said there going to announce it at their X-box show at the end of the month, along with X-box exclusives such as Perfect Dark Zero.

I doubt this is true, but at least with this rumour we will know at the end of September..


Also Animal Leader isn't being released in Europe *cries*
And Doshin isn't being released in America.

*Types with nervous shaking hands*

And I woudnt worry about the Rare rumor.

*Worries*

*Does some research into the rumor*

Whitestripes wrote:
>Hold your breath for the end of the month..


LAWYER!

No...Animal...Leader...

*cries heart out*

I mean...That..doesn't...matter

*cries more*

I heard about Microsoft having meetings with Rare a while back from a reliable source. And then I had a conversation with some guy in the games industry who was making a game and didn't know if it was going to be for the Gamecube or X-Box at the time. He said it all depends who offers him the most money.

Now think of this situation from Rare's point of view.
There going to make games which people are going to enjoy no matter what. Now if someones going to offer you a CRAZY amount of money like that, are you seriously going to turn it down?

No your not!

Also there's the fact that Microsoft don't have really many exclusive games on their X-Box. They need some. So why not just throw another large some of money at one of the greatest games developers in the world!

Unfortunately I think this IS going to happen!

All of Rare's Cube games were yanked from release schedules months back! We ain't seen anything of any of their Cube games apart from Starfox Adventures.

Also it was said that the announcement of the buyout was only going to be done around or after the release of SA. That's coming up isn't it?

This is a bit of a doom n gloom post, but I'm sorry to say/think that they've gone.

hmm... now will I still send them my CV in a years time!?! More than likely!

lol

:)

mess wrote:
> You all seem to be forgetting that Nintendo owns 36% of Rare through
> shares.

Actually, according to the official Rareware website (www.rareware.co.uk), Nintendo own 25% of Rare. Dunno where everyone else gets their figures from...

So Animal Crossing, Animal Leader and Animal Forest are three different games?

I'm sure the RSPCA would be interested in this...

mess wrote:
> You all seem to be forgetting that Nintendo owns 36% of Rare through
> shares. This is what makes them a SECOND-PARTY! See? It really is
> quite simple. In fact, even more companies own parts of Rare and in
> fact the only smidgeon of the company RareWare own themselves is Chris
> and Tim Stamper, who own 11%. So unless all companies involved agree
> to releasing Rare from their bindings and contracts I consider it
> extremely unlikely that Rare will go over to Xbox. Whats more likely
> is that Rare will be making an Xbox-exclusive game. Personally I hope
> they give Bill Gates Banjo-Kazooie. That'd wipe the smile off his
> face.

thats all well and true , but those other companies that own stakes in rare , could sell their shares to microsoft , then microsoft would have as much say as too what rare do as nintendo do.

and i liked banjo kazooie.

I think it'd more likely be Perfect Dark Zero seeing as that's the second part of the darned rumour

You all seem to be forgetting that Nintendo owns 36% of Rare through shares. This is what makes them a SECOND-PARTY! See? It really is quite simple. In fact, even more companies own parts of Rare and in fact the only smidgeon of the company RareWare own themselves is Chris and Tim Stamper, who own 11%. So unless all companies involved agree to releasing Rare from their bindings and contracts I consider it extremely unlikely that Rare will go over to Xbox. Whats more likely is that Rare will be making an Xbox-exclusive game. Personally I hope they give Bill Gates Banjo-Kazooie. That'd wipe the smile off his face.

Don't you think nearly half a billion is a bit too much for a games company? I mean microsoft have already spent quite a bit on the x-box already, I just can't see the company spending yet more money to try and make it more popular.

If the rumour is true, then I doubt the x-box will ever make a profit since so much has been spent on it.