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Guitarguy on 25 June 2016
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Veknoid_Outcast said:
Guitarguy said:

Losing Rare was a huge blow to Nintendo, this was especially felt during the Gamecube and Wii U years where Rare's output would have made both those consoles libraries even better and more varied. However I do acknowledge that by around 2002, the Rare we knew and loved was mostly gone as key developers had left the company some before then. Their 64 output was absolutely legendary. I'm collecting all the retro consoles in reverse order and the N64 is my next purchase, will be having a HDMI internal mod installed, can't wait!

I think that's a good point. Losing Rare's output was a blow, but losing Rare the company wasn't. A lot of the talent had left and started other studios.

Honestly, even though it turned out fewer games than Rare during its golden age, Retro, I think, filled that void nicely.

Retro are definitely excellent, for sure. I should have mentioned Iguana and Factor 5 also who pushed the N64 to its limits also but were not first/second party developers. Most of my fondest gaming memories are tied to Rare's games though. I miss seeing their logo pop up upon booting up... :(