Gnizmo said:
Yes, give. Who did the coding for the latest round of games currently is irrelevant. The game was made, but it can't be released because Nintendo owns the rights. It would be Nintendo giving them the game in an enhanced version which is detrimental to them. Let me reverse this for you. If Nintendo made an enhanced version of Halo 2 on their own, should Microsoft sign off on it? Not unless they get sometthing else that is better out of it. |
Please, Halo is an IP that is owned by MS fully, furthermore, it is Xbox's flagship title, like Mario and Zelda are to Nintendo. You can't compare all that with Goldeneye, which at this point, belongs to a few parties, which really means it belongs to no one anymore.
We are going in circles with this, however, looking at the situation as a whole, a product is ready to make money for all the companies in question and yet remains on the shelf. From Nintendos perspective, they are playing with house money since they get to generate revenue from a game they didn't pay to develope. For MS they have the best version of the game but they also paid for it out of their own pockets. Nintendo is I guess holding out trying to get MS to also fund Wii development, but that is very far fetched considering Rare don't develope for Wii and the cost to MS for such a project might not be returned in game sales. Thus, no one is making any money off of a product ready to be sold; how thats a win for any of parties associated here is beyond me.
