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Zucas on 05 October 2008
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Shadowblind said:
Zucas said:
VBI said:
But it's not MORE Nintendo's than Rare's. The developer gets the primary credit for making the game, and that falls to Rare. Again, it's basically free money, and whilst they may feel slighted or whatever, surely the idea of money for practically no work would overcome that. Nintendo is just like every other company on earth, they all have their skeletons in the closet, their mistakes, their ego moments. But surely bringing a quality title to their console owners and making a tidy profit in the process. And despite the comments above, there is no indication in that article that Nintendo would have recieved a lesser version of the game at all.

Maybe more to it that we don't know, but on the face of it, nothing more than ego prevents Nintendo from earning this free money because they don't want Microsoft to earn money on the game either.

And the Goldeneye 007 team is at Free Radical, and the head Martin Hollis, is at Zoonami. This Rare with MS probably has less than 10 members that actually worked on Goldeney on N64.

Point being Nintendo who actually has licenses to this title got no oversight or input on all of this and all of a suddent they are expected to approve it. That's not fair to Ninty and you know that.

 

Have they not more then enough time by now to have reviewed the deal? I don't think Microsoft just shoved it on them and said 'SIGN'.

 

Well of course they have but look at it from their perspective.  There is nothing that actually says this game even needs to go to XBLA.  Actually they could have gone to Activision and struck a deal to have it developed and put on VC exclusively.  But then over at Rare they have these guys working on the project when they have no licenses for the game and now they have to approve it for both XBLA and VC when before it could have been exclusive.  I mean now the catch of course is they didn't have to pay for the funding and what not.  As some has said its a free game but they could have had it even better from a perspective.  Such as having a co development by them an Activision and then the profits are only split 2 way instead of 3.

I mean this is a tough issue... more than this article wants to give it as they simply display it as Ninty being stubborn.  But I think looking deeper into it some of that stubborness is warranted from a business perspective at Nintendo.  As I said a compromise will probably be worked out consider BK 1 was a go on XBLA but I can understand a little bit of Ninty's stubborness.  Not all of it but some of it.