1up yours rumour: Big 360 game canceled.

[nintendo_fanboy]

After reading all the posts, I don't believe that it's Banjo, but I want to give my two cents to this game anyway:

First of all, I really hope that this game turns out great and gets the attention it deserves for the sake of the platforming genre (there hasn't been a lot next to Mario recently) and for the sake of good-old square.

Secondly, I actually DO think that this game will turn out well and that it will get the attention it deserves. Someone stated that a lot of Games in the last years of the N64 suffered bad sales; I think that is the explanation why Tooie sold less than Kazooie, together with the fact that some people may thought that the two games are too similar and that it's not worth it getting them both.

The N64 gamers are spread out widely over the three consoles I think. Some are N-loyalists that stayed, some are always going with the best and switched to the PSX back in the days, and (I believe quite a lot) grew up, got interested in more mature games and bought a Xbox. Of course everything changed again with this gen (some came back, some PSX gamers got a 360 now etc...) but I suppose that a good amount of Banjo-Kazooie lovers own a 360 today.

That fact, together with a hype similar to the one of Metroid Prime back in the days - which was a very close situation actually, a game that has not seen an installment for more than one generation - could really lead to Microsoft being very happy with Rare immediately.