| nintendo_fanboy said: As soon as this game releases on the 360, I will feel truly sorry that Rare left Nintendo... |
...If it doesn't suck.
I loved BK1, but BK2 was a huge step backwards, pushing collect-a-thons to a point we wouldn't see the likes of until DK64 with its "collect mountains of crap with 5 different monkeys" gameplay.
I'd guess that maybe half of the original team who worked on BK is still there, and if this game actually doesn't get canned, the market for it still doesn't exist on the 360 and probably never will.
If I were MS, I wouldn't put another cent into Rare. Even if BK3 is an outstanding game, the odds that it will make even its money back are slim to none. The audience on the 360 just isn't the one that will appreciate BK.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
