Mr Khan said:
This is true. Nintendo's kept Rare from getting anything that Nintendo had publisher rights on out to other systems (like how Banjo and Banjo Tooie never ended up on XBLA, nor, infamously, Goldeneye) |
Is this sarcasm? Because Nintendo SOLD those IP's. Whose gonna buy Bayonetta? Sega already said via Twitter that they basically just allowed Nintendo to use the IP and fund PG's developement. Nintendo will also publish the game everywhere in the world. This game is going nowhere without Nintendos permission because it's entirely funded by them, Sega only gets a premium for usage of PG and the IP and they do nothing else besides advising or whatever.
This game was already cancelled and Sega sunk money in it without any return so I guess it is plausible that Nintendo took that bill for struggling Sega plus a little something for the use of PG and got all the rights for the game in return. Maybe they even bought the whole IP, but I guess not since Sega's Logo is still represent.
Ongoing bet with think-man: He wins if MH4 releases in any shape or form on PSV in 2013, I win if it doesn't.
