Rare Working On "Jaw Dropping, Never-Been-Done-Before" Game For Xbox One

[Mr Puggsly]

Fusioncode said:

Mr Puggsly said:

The_Sony_Girl1 said:
Why did Microsoft buy Rare in the first place? Nobody except hardcore Rare gamers would actually buy them on an X1, because the audience is mostly comprised of "mature" gamers.

With the purchase of Rare they got some noteworthy IPs. A notable one at the moment is Killer Instinct, one of the great fighting series ever and the new game is great.

MS bought them in hopes of bringing a casual audience to Xbox and it was actually pretty successful. Several of their games have sold a million or millions. VGChartz isn't tracking them properly by the way.

If anything, Rare helps make MS's 1st party lineup more well rounded.

Lolz.

Rare has made what? Maybe 3 successful games since joining up with Microsoft? $375 million well spent. Microsoft bought Rare because they wanted them to make the next Goldeneye or Banjo Kazooie for Xbox. Instead they ran several of their of their most beloved franchises into the ground and created a bunch of new IPs that ended up DOA. Rare did not give Microsoft the success they wanted nor did they give the fans the games they wanted. And if you don't believe me you can hear it straight from the horse's mouth. 

You ignore Rare also has some million sellers on GBA and DS while owned by MS. I could be wrong, but I think MS partly owns the SNES era Donkey Kong Country games. Rare developed the GBA DKC games while owned by MS.

Donkey Kong Country

GBA

2003

Platform

Nintendo

1.20

0.48

0.29

0.07

2.04

Donkey Kong Country 2

GBA

2004

Platform

Nintendo

0.79

0.27

0.12

0.04

1.23

Donkey Kong Country 3

GBA

2005

Platform

Nintendo

0.45

0.17

0.14

0.01

0.77

Diddy Kong Racing DS

DS

2007

Racing

Nintendo

1.09

0.03

0.00

0.09

1.21

So take that into consideration when talking about the money paid for Rare.

There is still potential in the IPs MS owns from the Rare purchase. For example, Killer Instinct.

Maybe the purchase of Rare wasn't the success MS hoped. But they probaby got the money's worth and they're still taking advantage of Rare and their IPs.