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Kresnik said:

Aside from that, if Rare were to return to the character-centric platformers that made them their name, then I kinda feel like that would just lead to another round of layoffs tbh. The market for these games outside of Nintendo's consoles just isn't there anymore. Sony try, and there's a small niche that still buys Ratchet/Sly, but aside from that it has really shrunk. Even though I imagine there would be a decent number of nostalgia-buys from people who grew up with them, such a market would be pretty small.

I think Conker would fit in well on the Xbox. Its humor would definitely appeal to the userbase. In fact, I think a new Conker game would sell better on the Xbox One than Bad Fur Day did on the N64.



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Kinect was just like Wii Sports. They had great initial outings(saleswise) but the second time around bombed. So why didn't Nintendo lose any jobs... they have money baby.



Carl2291 said:
Game should have been a launch title and bundled, like FIFA.

Them launching the console without a "high profile" Kinect game was a gigantic mistake. Launching this game late, with little to no advertising, while hardware sales were tanking was an even bigger mistake.


I predict it'll be bundled with the Kinect at some point like Kinect Adventures.



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If it was ND or other Sony dev we would get at least 16-32 threads for a month period and several doom analysis linking the departs to sony poor financials and studio in problem.

Now sony could hire both the high profile and make Knack 2 the great game it can be.

And so much for kinect being integral to X1 and the only kinect focused game flops and wasn't bundled. So much waste.



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bubblegamer said:
D-Joe said:
Shit,i like Knack

Kinect not Knack. I'm sure you know the difference, but baiting is so much fun to some, huh?

The hell?i'm talking about PS4 game Knack,not Kinect



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D-Joe said:
bubblegamer said:
D-Joe said:
Shit,i like Knack

Kinect not Knack. I'm sure you know the difference, but baiting is so much fun to some, huh?

The hell?i'm talking about PS4 game Knack,not Kinect


No worries me and Kratos addressed him lol. We told him he jumped the gun without reading ahead of time.



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Sad... Kinect Sports Rivals is a fun game but it should have been a launch title and included with every Xbox One sold.

Hope MS will just hire them in another of their studio they are building up.



Welp... congratulations, Microsoft. You have successfully killed Rare.



So they laid off motion control staff. The age of kinect sports is over. Good news for gamers.



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sales2099 said:
So they laid off motion control staff. The age of kinect sports is over. Good news for gamers.

Yup! Maybe now we will actually get to play a halfway decent Banjo/Conker game!



                
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