| Legend11 said: I think that things may be looking up for Rare since Microsoft wants more family friendly titles and Rare has done well with those kinds of games in the past. If Banjo Kazooie 3 is even close to being as good as Banjo Kazooie then it'll have a major hit on it's hands. If I was in charge of the Xbox 360 at Microsoft I'd have Rare working on a new Battletoads game as well as 2-3 other family friendly titles. |
Battletoads was sold to Tradewest years ago and the last time Rare was asked to make a "family friendly" title, the Xbox got "Grabbed by the Ghoulies".
I've heard that Viva Pinata was alright, but in the end, it didn't matter because no one buys games like that on a MS console and they likely never will.
When your entire marketing push is "mature games for mature gamers", don't expect mothers to pick that kind of thing up for their kids.
If Nintendo is having a hard time beating the kiddie image and selling mature titles, then MS is going to have just as difficult a time beating the adult image and selling family titles. They're fighting the same battle, just in different directions.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
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