| mike_intellivision said: I thought it was highly ironic that while Rare got a new logo this week, games that it made under its old logo with its old partner were receiving new life. Retro has taken over DK Country. Activision (the current license owner for Bond) has remade the seminal game Golden Eye. Both received their first viewings at E3. (though the week before, some word about the existence/possible existence of these games was on the net). Meanwhile, the new Rare was featured in Kinect Sports. It is as if Microsoft has told Rare -- "You used to work with Nintendo. We need you to make Nintendo-like games." Mike from Morgantown Did anyone notice that Nintendo did NOT excise the "Rare" logo from the Goldeneye N64 box? Also, I guess we know why someone (Nintendo or Activision) did not want Goldeneye (especially a remake) on XBLA.
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Ahhh mike, thats exactly what i said in the thread topic. Nintendos saying to Rare, we got you for those Avatars buddy.
But then conversely, Nintendo needed Rare, and theyve used then to win E3 and hopefully reclaim some lost customers.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
