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S.T.A.G.E. on 18 August 2015
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Mr Puggsly said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


When I was younger it wasn't about popularity, Rare was on the losing team and it still compelled people to buy new consoles. Goldeneye sold just as much as the first halo. Rare is no longer a fine studio  imo but a shell. Luckily MS doesn't have to make them recreate all of the nostalgia  games. Their only good game to me on any xbox platform was killer instinct and it wasn't even made by them. Then again I've been spoiled by Nintendo and sony first party growing  up so I guess it's a little unfair to expect the same from microsoft.

Weak argument, N64 like many platforms had an audience without being the most popular platform. I had a Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, Gamecube, and OG Xbox because they had some gems. 

Your argument is pure bias. You won't acknowledge Rare's Xbox content was actually solid simply because it didn't have the same success as their Nintendo games. Rare brought good content to Xbox, Xbox simply lacked the audience that wanted those games. Its like Japanese games on Xbox, the games can be good and still sell poor because the audience simply isn't there. Those same Rare games that were on Xbox would have been very successful on Nintendo consoles.

I don't have your same nostalgia goggles. My favorite games on old Sony and NIntendo platforms were generally 3rd party (Street Fighter, wrestling games, etc). The 1st party games I primarily enjoyed as a kid were Sega games. I mean c'mon, Dreamcast's 1st party was legend.

I've had more fun with Xbox 1st party then I've ever had with Playstation 1st party. But hey, you're entitled to enjoy whatever you want.


Its not a weak argument. Microsoft never had the first party credentials to run Rare properly. Give Rare back to Nintendo or Sony and they will make something out of the resources better than Microsoft. Microsoft has always had the worst first party and the other companies dont need to buy other peoples IP's just to have hits.