Banjo Kazooie on 360 or Banjo on N64?

[theRepublic]

enditall727 said:

theRepublic said:

enditall727 said:

spurgeonryan said:
It did well for Nintendo. That was on the N64. Just think of what Banjo could have sold on the Wii!

and that is why i think the Masterminds at Rare left

Nintendo didn't do the greatest when Rare was with them on N64 and Gamecube. They probably thought that Ninty was going under at that point and felt like MS was the better company to go with at the time. Could you imagine how everybody at Rare must have felt when they seen how the Wii exploded after they left Nintendo for MS?

they jumped off a sinking ship a couple seconds before it turned into an airship and flew passed the other ships that were still in the water

that's life

Nintendo owned 49% of the company.  The Stamper brothers wanted to sell the remaining stake to Nintendo, but Ninendo did not want it.  So they looked for another buyer, and Microsoft ended up taking it.

..the hell do you mean "Nintendo didn't want it"??

why didn't they want it?

 

i don't feel like researching it right now so just tell me what yu know..

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-08-who-killed-rare

Here is a great article if you want to know more.

The short answer is pretty much what Rol said though.  Look how prolific they were on the N64.  A total of 11 games, with quite a few hits.  Then only one Gamecube game (which started as a N64 project), and two Xbox games (one of which was a remake) during the next generation.

Martin Hollis (GoldenEye and Perfect Dark) had already left Rare in 1998 to work with Nintendo on the Gamecube.  Other people may have left too (that is just one example I am aware of).  Nintendo would have known this.

The relationship between Rare and Nintendo soured a bit with Conker's Bad Fur Day.  Rare had to get a different publisher for that game.  So that didn't help matters.

Maybe Nintendo decided internally to take a different direction with their developers at the time.  Maybe Nintendo saw something the rest of us didn't.  Maybe they got lucky and dodged a bullet.  Maybe Rare would still be good if they had Nintendo's guiding hand*.  We will never really know unless someone at Nintendo talks, and I don't see that happening.

 

*From the link:

"However, in time it became clear that everyone had underestimated how much of the studio's success was down to Nintendo's gentle steering. "It seemed like Microsoft was really a novice in the games industry and for some time they left us to try and see how things worked," Cook explains. "They wanted hit games for their console and since they weren't sure how to go about it they trusted Rare to do what was necessary. The problem here was that Rare was a very long way from the very corporate structure of Microsoft and when Rare had made games it wasn't in isolation from Nintendo but as a creative partnership."