Rare devs confirm Goldeneye 007 XBLA was killed off by Nintendo.
— MVG (@ModernVintageG) February 8, 2021
https://t.co/kGpHGf7Ooi
Long story short, the dev team at Rare were given the go ahead to develop the game, were told that all of the rights had been cleared with Nintendo. 99% of the way through development, when they had just 90 bugs left to fix ahead of release, they get told by the higher ups at Rare that the project is cancelled because the people at Nintendo who authorized the project apparently didn't have the power to do so, and some Nintendo executive sent MS a cease and desist ordering the game to be cancelled.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 08 February 2021