Rare has always been icing on the cake. Problem is, you need a cake first. On the SNES, Rare was amazing because Nintendo had a huge cake. It was shaped like Final Fantasy and Ghouls and Ghosts and R-Type. In the N64 days, Nintendo's cake was anemic and shaped like Turok. So there was plenty of icing, but no cake.
GameCube and Xbox were in similar positions, cake-wise. *sigh,* yes, the cake was a lie. Out of the way, moving on.
The 360 has a much more robust cake, so I expect Rare to flourish later on in this generation. They'd have done the same at Nintendo at this point. Game-wise, both have sustainable amounts of cake for Rare's icing.
OK, I've lost where I was going, but I think I got my point across... and the point is that I shouldn't post when I'm hungry.
