3 Games Rare Made That Would Have Been Successful on the Wii U

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Fusioncode said:

Soundwave said:

Solid-Stark said:
Someone nailed it good already. Today's Rare, isn't 90's Rare.

Most of the people who worked on Metroid Prime have left Retro too.

With the state of the industry today, Nintendo would probably be easily able to re-stock Rare with high end talent from around Europe and probably bring back a lot of former Rare employees too (David Wise for one is basically doing nothing these days).

I wish Nintendo never made that deal. IMO whatever they would've paid for Rare in 2002 (the remaining 50% share) would've been paid off as I think franchises like Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Viva Pinata, Killer Instinct could've been steady money-makers for Nintendo on the Wii + DS.

Nintendo had no part in it. Rare was the one searching for a buyer because Nintendo didn't want to give them more money. Microsoft did. In the end, Nintendo let Rare keep all their IPs as a sign of good faith. 

This is not exactly accurate. Nintendo and Rare had a deal, in the mid-90s, Nintendo had bought a 49% stake in Rare.

The Stampers controlled the other 51%. Fast forward to 2002 and the Stampers were looking to retire, so they went to Nintendo first to sell them the remaining 51%.

Nintendo refused, that's when the open bidding began. Microsoft paid a ton of money for Rare, they sure as hell were going to get all the non-Nintendo IPs (IIRC initially Nintendo tried to have that not be the case, but MS was offereing so much money, that it wasn't an option).