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Azzanation on 11 January 2019
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Shiken said:
Azzanation said:

And why would Rare do that? That's like saying Sega should have sold Sonic when they stopped making consoles. Besides Rare made Banjo Kazooie into a great game, not Nintendo. I think a lot of people forget that.

Yeah but they also made nuts and bolts sooooo...

Yeahhhhhhh and Sega made a lot worse games. Nutz and Bolts is a solid game compared to anything Sega brought out in there after years.

NightlyPoe said:
Azzanation said:

And why would Rare do that? That's like saying Sega should have sold Sonic when they stopped making consoles. Besides Rare made Banjo Kazooie into a great game, not Nintendo. I think a lot of people forget that.

Because Sega didn't have to pay someone a couple hundred million dollars to get out of the console business.  Nintendo owned 49% of Rare.  Nintendo could have asked for IPs as compensation instead of money if they'd wanted.

It wouldn't be far off from how Microsoft got to keep Halo as an IP when Bungie left.

Erm Rare wanted out from Nintendo, If Nintendo wanted to keep them than they needed to look after them which they didn't towards the end. Beside MS would have brought Rare because of the IPs. Rare without the IPs would have been a less attractive purchase and less money in it for Nintendo.

Last edited by Azzanation - on 11 January 2019