What is this, 2002 again? I feel like I'm in high school and arguing with people who hate Feidler.
Rare is your special ops. You give them more money, more resources, and send them your trickiest jobs, but they're worthless without regular troops. SNES was a great place for Rare, because the weight wasn't on their shoulders. N64 was much harder, because other than the first-party stuff, Rare was about all you had. X-box was even worse because the first-party support was weaker, and the third-party support didn't compensate enough. If Rare can get their act together again, they might see some sort of reclamation of dominance on the 360, which seems to have more strong software than X-box, but after the last 5 years, I'm not holing out much hope.
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