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Are you insane? Rare was in a whole other league compared to Retro. You're talking about some company that has a small handful of games, to a company which both pioneered and revolutionized the industry.
* Retro has produced only 4 games in 10 years. In that amount of time Rare produced 51 games; between 1991 and 2000.
* Retro's most acclaimed title is a console FPS; it didn't really bring anything to the genre; Rare created the Console FPS genre with Goldeneye 007, and also revolutionized the PC genre which borrowed many things from Goldeneye. Goldeye's sales also outdo Retro's three Metroid titles combined. Goldeneye was a overall a WAY bigger game than Metroid Prime.
* Retro's most commercially successful title is Donkey Kong Country Returns, a series created by Rare; and at the time of DKC, more than 15 years ago, Rare was experimenting with pre-rendering techniques that allowed for the SNES to produce 24-bit colour images; it was a ground breaking technique which led to such titles such as Resident Evil 2 and Final Fantasy 7, among many other games. Retro's DKC doesn't bring anything new to the table. Rare has many more titles that were more commercially successful than DKCR.
Comparing Retro to Rare is the same as comparing Fox Animation Studios to Disney when it comes to animated films.
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