Microsoft is sitting on a precious Rare that still hasn't been used.

[S.T.A.G.E.]

Bajablo said:

At that time though, microsoft didn't have a real gaming precence. They needed some good IP's and 'Rare made DKC' and seemed like a good deal at the time atleast.
Then the deal went through and "huh, DK is still a nintendo IP?... shit" i mean, rare still have/had some great IP's but nothing that was known to the general public except donkey kong.

Yeah but thats similarly why they bought Bungie away from Apple before the game was finished because MS knew Halo would be great and they had no heavy hitter for the Xbox. 

But yeah...so much politics...that was just dumb on Microsoft's part. Funny enough the initial people who were pushing the Xbox were actually in into wanting to be involved in the gaming industry for all the right reasons, but Bill Gates went into the console industry for all the wrong reasons. Its amazing how such a pure idea gets perverted.