10/10 would lol again. I wonder if there was any posters of super model babes up on the wall too.... hey cool, we own jemma jameson now?! lets make porn games!

Lol, I can imagine everyone at Rare around the exec facepalming when they heard that guy about owning DK.

hahaha that man is lying. talking crap about ms to get some publicity for his game

Ouch. hahaha

Even with Donkey Kong himself there was doubt. Games in which Donkey Kong appeared during the early 6th generation (very early, before the stock-sale) would generally have Rareware credited for his appearance. Rare is one of the credited companies in Super Smash Bros Melee, and Donkey Kong's model is specifically credited to Rareware in Mario Kart: Super Circuit

They do own Killer Instinct, which is cool.

The Rare deal is one of those deals that IMO everyone lost on.

Nintendo could've sold a fair amount of new Banjo-Kazooie, Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark, Viva Pinata, Kameo, Diddy Kong Racing, etc. games on the Wii and DS with the much larger userbase and filled a lot of holes in their release lineup, probably allowing them to launch the 3DS and Wii U much more strongly as well and preventing some of the headaches Nintendo has had the last few years.

Microsoft really got little/no benefit from the Rare acquisition and alienated most of the staff in the process.

Rare obviously became a shell of what they used to be.

I think Nintendo should've just bought them and reorganized the studio a bit to refocus themselves on games that weren't so large/bloated.

I think this is a situation of being sort of surprised. They state in the article that the executive first saw the poster and then said "o we own Donkey Kong". It could have been a thing were they thought they didn't own it, but when they took a tour after they bought Rare those properties still being displayed on the wall by a poster made them think they did own it after all.