RARE without Nintendo is not what it was to be....

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Mr Khan said:

bigjon said:
I remember calling Rare weakening when they left Nintendo back in what 2000? 2001? Anyways, I always thought there greatness was a combination of their own techinical talent (why their graphics rocked) and Nintendo's imput and Nintendo just has that knack for making games more fun (heck they even made Wii Music fun)

I think the same could be said for Retro. They would be nothing without Nintendo, look at what they were before...

 

Retro Studios was already making a number of promising-looking GameCube titles, some sort of ARPG, racing game, football (American) game.

 

Of course, they wouldn't have made the best game of all time, but it wouldn't have been ruinous

Retro was in deep shit at that time. They had a lot of projects on development but there wasn't a clear idea of what to do of those games and the managment waasn't good.

Then Nintendo decided to fully buy them.

When they did it Nintendo cancelled all the projects, give them the Metroid  franchise to work on under Miyamoto supervision and fired the Retro president.