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meehan666 on 08 October 2008
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Gnizmo said:

meehan666 said:

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.

 

 

 The example is fine. It is an IP that Microsoft owns. Nintendo (and others) own the Goldeneye IP. Just because it belongs to multiple people does not mean it suddenly is up for grabs. By that logic blu-ray should have no licensing fees since 12ish companies own the rights to it. And Nintendo easily has a win in this one. Goldeneye would make the 360 a more appealing game console to some consumers. Why would Nintendo ever want that? Microsoft is asking them to sign off on a competitive advantage which is just dumb. Just because some programmers were stupid enough to make a game they could not release doesn't mean Nintendo is obliged to hurt themselves by helping a competitor.

The example isn't fine at all. Microsoft owns Halo fully. Even if Nintendo bought Bungie, they could not get Halo. Goldeneye is shared. Furthermore, its old and doesn't have the market appeal that Halo does. And speaking on that, yeah, with Gears 2, Banjo, Fable 2 and Left 4 Dead due out soon I am sure the game on xbox everyone is dying for is a remake of a decade old classic (not even taking into account this is the xbox 360 - the shooter console)........no I think goldeneye, if it did come out, enhanced or not, would have a minimal impact on the balance of power in the console landscape.