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SaviorX on 07 December 2012
ganoncrotch said:
Salnax said:
ganoncrotch said:
SaviorX said:
I would actually agree with this kind of acquisition; they could fill a void Nintendo has had empty since Rare left.


that's a void that no one will fill.


Although Retro has helped ease the pain.


aye retro studios are really amazing but when microsoft took rare from nintendo they destroyed Rare and Done some pretty bad damage to the big N forever. the Rare name is on Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports :s

In the N64 era, I'd say Rare was better than Nintendo on their own console.

Now, they are useless, period.

Retro is a good start but the OUTPUT and simultaneous quality is not the same. Nintendo needs some kind of Western expansion, because right now, especially with their 'core-centric' priorities this  generation, they need that the most. Just look at the 3DS.......



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dahuman on 07 December 2012

Brother: "Hey I got 007 Legends on PC!"
Me: "WHYYYYYYY!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?~~~~"

A few days later....

Me: "So how was it?"
Brother: "It was torrent'ed anyways, lets just not talk about it....."



digitalnasties on 07 December 2012

The Eurocom brand has been tarnished from the Goldeneye Reloaded backstabbing, best Nintendo don't touch that.



 

Soundwave on 07 December 2012
digitalnasties said:
The Eurocom brand has been tarnished from the Goldeneye Reloaded backstabbing, best Nintendo don't touch that.


A developer porting a game a year later to other platforms is not "backstabbing" lol. 



amp316 on 08 December 2012

I just wanted to say that it's a shame how things went down with Eurocom. GoldenEye for the Wii is actually a very good game. I haven't played 007 Legends, but from what I have heard, it was extremely rushed and a whole lot if crap.



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NoirSon on 08 December 2012

I remember playing some of Eurocom's games back in the N64/PSX days. They did excellent ports of arcade games back then I usually wound up renting (back when I rented games from Blockbuster) several of their titles twice or more.

A shame they are getting shut down, since based off Goldeneye 007 for Wii, they still had the talent to craft good games. One of the things I hate about the industry's current trend is how older quality smaller developers are getting wiped out after trying one or two HD games that don't sell. Makes you wish they all just stuck to digital releases.



Gamerace on 08 December 2012
Soundwave said:
Gamerace said:
Bond games are not particularly big sellers, and Goldeneye despite being 'the best 3rd party game on Wii' did not sell impressively. It was probably profitable but that's about it. Not worth Nintendo's investment. Besides I've never seen Nintendo do licensed properties (not saying it hasn't happened, just it's not their thing).

If Nintendo wants a FPS studio there are much better ones to go after.

Like HVS.....

(kidding)


That's true in some respects, but I think the brand has been damaged a lot over the years due to poor games. 

If Nintendo could regain it and start pumping out quality Bond games, I think it'd be win-win for Nintendo and EON. 

You're not going to be able to create a better character property than 007 IMO if you're Nintendo. He's 50+ years old with appeal across the board, is the definition of cool, and the movies are on an upswing in terms of popularity even from the Brosnan era. 

Plus GoldenEye came out very late in the Wii lifecycle by which time, most core players had abandoned the platform. If it had come out in 2007 or 2008, I think it would've sold double, maybe more. Developers/publishers were too slow to react to the Wii's initial success and missed the boat. Christmas 2008 in particular when the Wii was red hot and there was only Animal Crossing and Wii Music (lol), a game like GoldenEye could've cleaned up.

True on both points.    Shame a game like Goldeneye didn't come out in 2007 and gotten more people into playing with IR controls.



 

blackstarr on 08 December 2012
Soundwave said:

 

Looks like Eurocom, developer of games like GoldenEye 007 on Wii/Reloaded on PS3/360, Sphinx, The World Is Not Enough (N64), 007: Nightfire (PS2/XBox/GC) is closing their doors in part because it seems like were forced to develop 007 Legends at gunpoint for this fall to coincide with the new Bond movie's release. 

Unfortunate. GoldenEye was probably the best third party Wii game IMO and the engine was successfully up-ported to next-gen. 

I wish Nintendo had moved in here and made a deal with Activision. They take on the studio, but pare it down to the 100 (from 200) best people, and in turn Activision effectively "lends" Nintendo the Bond/007 license. They make a Bond game exclusive for the Wii U to be delievered in 2014, overseen by Nintendo. 

What does this mean?? Developing a game had to do with their closing?



Jumpin on 08 December 2012

I honestly don't think Nintendo had much to gain here.



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JazzB1987 on 08 December 2012

Agreed! But you know what? they could still "hire" the guys and create Planetcom/Globecom whatever instead of Eurocom :)