| HoangNhatAnh said: So how Microsoft purchased Rare but Donkey Kong was still belong to Nintendo? 33% IP Nintendo own are the name and all Pokemon in the series, they also own a part of Creatures Inc and Game Freak. Sony can buy an empty shell with big money amount of for nothing. Meanwhile, Nintendo can hire a new studio for next Pokemon like Retro make new Donkey Kong, a replacement for Rare. If not X3, what chip it will use? Table/Smartphone get upgrade every year, Switch is using a mobile chip. In 2020, X4 can even come out. What price for the chip the ps4/5 portable will use? And don't tell me it is digital only or it will have the same fate as PSP Go |
Because Rare never owned the Donkey Kong IP, they only licenced it from Nintendo for the DKC games.
Nintendo always was the owner of the Donkey Kong IP:
