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If you'll recall, a few days ago we promised big news about Microsoft and Rare. A friend of ours at everyone's favorite overly secretive software design house (that'd be Rare) told us that Rare was leaving the warm, loving embrace of Nintendo for the steely grip of Microsoft. It was the most recent in a line of stories we'd broken, culminating last week in the news that Nintendo was seeking a buyer for its portion of Rare. We held off on running this one though, waiting to get confirmation from someone else inside Rare.
Today our friends at Raretopia broke news of Rare's imminent conversion. We still haven't officially confirmed what we've heard -- the only people who know for sure still aren't talking -- but we will say this: Raretopia's account is identical to what we've heard from within Rare (except for the news of Perfect Dark being an XBOX exclusive; more on that later).
It's looking to be a near certainty that Rare will not only abandon Nintendo exclusivity, but leave Nintendo altogether and become a Microsoft-exclusive developer. We wouldn't stake our lives on it, but barring an extensive, carefully orchestrated misinformation campaign -- and a bit of bad luck -- we now believe SFA will be Rare's last game as a Nintendo-exclusive second party.
To clear up some questions:
-The reason we were so dead-set on obtaining confirmation is because Dan thought it unacceptably likely that we were being jerked around, so to speak. Knowing Raretopia's reputation for careful and accurate reporting makes this possibility less likely to us.
-Rare's corporate culture seems to have been permeated with indecision or a change in direction. Additional reports include a virtual freeze on hiring at the company, leading some to believe that Rare is delaying its expansion until its development target is known, and it can better account for positions and areas of expertise it needs to fill. For a company on the grow, a multi-month hiring freeze is ... not the right strategy, even in today's wintry economic climate.
-We said that our source did not say that Perfect Dark Zero was being reformed as an XBOX exclusive; it is true, he did not say that. Nor did he say that it would NOT be XBOX exclusive. It just, uh, didn't come up in our conversation.
There you have it. It's looking like Rare on the Gamecube may be a short-lived phenomenon. As we've all grown accustomed to, don't count your eggs before Rare, Nintendo and/or Microsoft make an official statement. But if you bought a Gamecube solely for Rare games ... you may have to amuse yourself with Star Fox Adventures for a long, long time. Me? I'm buying an XBOX tonight
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Well...
"
If you'll recall, a few days ago we promised big news about Microsoft and Rare. A friend of ours at everyone's favorite overly secretive software design house (that'd be Rare) told us that Rare was leaving the warm, loving embrace of Nintendo for the steely grip of Microsoft. It was the most recent in a line of stories we'd broken, culminating last week in the news that Nintendo was seeking a buyer for its portion of Rare. We held off on running this one though, waiting to get confirmation from someone else inside Rare.
Today our friends at Raretopia broke news of Rare's imminent conversion. We still haven't officially confirmed what we've heard -- the only people who know for sure still aren't talking -- but we will say this: Raretopia's account is identical to what we've heard from within Rare (except for the news of Perfect Dark being an XBOX exclusive; more on that later).
It's looking to be a near certainty that Rare will not only abandon Nintendo exclusivity, but leave Nintendo altogether and become a Microsoft-exclusive developer. We wouldn't stake our lives on it, but barring an extensive, carefully orchestrated misinformation campaign -- and a bit of bad luck -- we now believe SFA will be Rare's last game as a Nintendo-exclusive second party.
To clear up some questions:
-The reason we were so dead-set on obtaining confirmation is because Dan thought it unacceptably likely that we were being jerked around, so to speak. Knowing Raretopia's reputation for careful and accurate reporting makes this possibility less likely to us.
-Rare's corporate culture seems to have been permeated with indecision or a change in direction. Additional reports include a virtual freeze on hiring at the company, leading some to believe that Rare is delaying its expansion until its development target is known, and it can better account for positions and areas of expertise it needs to fill. For a company on the grow, a multi-month hiring freeze is ... not the right strategy, even in today's wintry economic climate.
-We said that our source did not say that Perfect Dark Zero was being reformed as an XBOX exclusive; it is true, he did not say that. Nor did he say that it would NOT be XBOX exclusive. It just, uh, didn't come up in our conversation.
There you have it. It's looking like Rare on the Gamecube may be a short-lived phenomenon. As we've all grown accustomed to, don't count your eggs before Rare, Nintendo and/or Microsoft make an official statement. But if you bought a Gamecube solely for Rare games ... you may have to amuse yourself with Star Fox Adventures for a long, long time. Me? I'm buying an XBOX tonight
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as long as i get PD2 exclusive on my cube ill be very happy. i guess i could live without rares other games.
It's not a good thing for Nintendo, but it also isn't a greta loss. Rare never make games anyway, and even though the ones they do occasionally make are superb, Sony has proved that it's quantity, rather than quality that people want.
So it's totally official then? Rare have gone to MS, has either company/website confirmed this.
I'm a bit beind reading up to date facts see.
I'm a bit beind reading up to date facts see.
Perfect Dark...
Nintendo and Rare are arguing over that one.
Perfect Dark is Rare's franchise but they registered it together so Nintendo also have a claim on it.
All future Rare games are Xbox bound (after Starfox) so if PD2 comes to the Gamecube, it won't be by Rare, and probably won't be as good...
Nintendo and Rare are arguing over that one.
Perfect Dark is Rare's franchise but they registered it together so Nintendo also have a claim on it.
All future Rare games are Xbox bound (after Starfox) so if PD2 comes to the Gamecube, it won't be by Rare, and probably won't be as good...
but what about Perfect Dark 2?
«phi11ip« wrote:
> As long as they don't sell the rights to MarioKart too, I'll be happy!
You should continue being happy then as Rare don't have the rights to Mario Kart, the only real rights they have to it are that of the Donkey Kong model used in Mario Kart Suer Circuit and Donkey Kong is a Nintendo character anyway, so in effect Mario Kart is owned by Nintendo (of course) and they won't sell the rights of it to Microsoft anyway so I dont see what your worrying about :)
slik ~_~
> As long as they don't sell the rights to MarioKart too, I'll be happy!
You should continue being happy then as Rare don't have the rights to Mario Kart, the only real rights they have to it are that of the Donkey Kong model used in Mario Kart Suer Circuit and Donkey Kong is a Nintendo character anyway, so in effect Mario Kart is owned by Nintendo (of course) and they won't sell the rights of it to Microsoft anyway so I dont see what your worrying about :)
slik ~_~
As long as they don't sell the rights to MarioKart too, I'll be happy!
Mantis wrote:
> For all I know you may have spent 5 minutes with Halo on some crummy
> Xbox demo pod, which may lead you to beleave it not that good.
Well, I've got an Xbox and Halo, and would agree with Ant. It's a very good FPS, but not much more - nothing really 'special'. I haven't even finished it because I got bored of it.
As for best FPS - that goes to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault on PC - in my opinion. All other reasons aside, good FPS on PC will always beat console FPS simply because of the mouse control, which is far superior to a console joypad.
> For all I know you may have spent 5 minutes with Halo on some crummy
> Xbox demo pod, which may lead you to beleave it not that good.
Well, I've got an Xbox and Halo, and would agree with Ant. It's a very good FPS, but not much more - nothing really 'special'. I haven't even finished it because I got bored of it.
As for best FPS - that goes to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault on PC - in my opinion. All other reasons aside, good FPS on PC will always beat console FPS simply because of the mouse control, which is far superior to a console joypad.
Not at all.
They must've made a fortune selling their shares in Rare to MS.
Besides, despite Rare's games being some of the best around, because they don't make so many, Nintendo didn't make so much out of them anyway.
They must've made a fortune selling their shares in Rare to MS.
Besides, despite Rare's games being some of the best around, because they don't make so many, Nintendo didn't make so much out of them anyway.
How could they.
Nintendo will be out of pocket that's for sure.
Nintendo will be out of pocket that's for sure.
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