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JEMC on 24 May 2014
d21lewis said:
JEMC said:
Well, it's not that those kind of games don't sell anymore, look at Donkey Kong for Wii which is the second best selling DK game according to our database, but how and to who are you selling the game.

And clearly, that audience is (mostly) not the one that buys an XboxOne.


Looking at sales, that audience isn't the audience that buys a Wii U, either (sadly)!  Even my little girl that loved all things Wii a few years ago only wants to play more mature games.  It tears my heart out. :(

Nintendo problem right now is that they have made a console for kids (even they said so and pointed their lack of appeal to the younger audience as one of the causes for their bad results with WiiU) but priced it as a console for adults.

Even Donkey on WiiU, with its 0.54 mill + digital, appeals to somewhat of a 10% of its audience. Look how many people bought Viva Piñata or Banjo-Kazooie for the 360.



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Augen on 24 May 2014
green_sky said:
Augen said:
A Hat in Time is essentially a 90s Rare game made now. See how it does.

Game had to rely on a kickstarter to get funded. Sorry if you already knew this. :)


Which speaks to the industry view of such games. It got funded well above its goal so off to a good start. Now we see how well it sells.



GamechaserBE on 24 May 2014

Most of rare games especially n64 are outdated gameplay wise. Making a new game in a franchise needs new stuff that old rare fans will bitch about. Bk nuts and bolts for example. Making one of those will be hard to make gamers happy for it.



VGhippy on 24 May 2014

To be fair Mario, Sonic, LBP, Rachet & Clank (The good ones) Minecraft, LEGO and so on sell very well. I don't think a RARE game like Banjo kazooie would sell very well only being on the Xone though, it would need to be multiplat.



MoHasanie on 24 May 2014

Yeah I don't see them selling well either. Platformers don't even sell too well anymore.



    

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AZWification on 24 May 2014

Probably not, but I still want a new Banjo/Conker game!



                
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Nintentacle on 24 May 2014

Conker might sell. All the Xbox kids would ask their parents for it since it has a bunch a dirty jokes, and then there would be the occasional dumb parents who buys it for their 4-year-old because of the art style!



Squeezol on 24 May 2014

I don't think so, honestly. I guess maybe Microsoft asked Rare to specifically NOT develop these kind of games.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 24 May 2014

Probably not.... I think any respect Rare had is gone by now



                  

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Cobretti2 on 24 May 2014

Microsoft killed the franchise. If Nintendo did the smart thing and acquired RARE these games would have been released at least one per gen and stayed relevant.