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Forums - Microsoft - Anyone download the Viva Pinata Party Animals demo? Funny thing...

LordTheNightKnight on 24 September 2007
DarkNight_DS said:
mrstickball said:
IMO, I think VP is going to attempt to be Microsoft's #1 family-friendly franchise.

MS needs to focus Rare (since they own it) on the Viva Pinata franchise, as well as the Banjo Kazooie series. Rare's just about the only good non-Nintendo company for family friendly titles (atleast in terms of putting a ton out that are great).

VP was a masterpiece of a real-time simulation game and vastly undersold and underrated. But with a system like X360, it needs ALOT of games like this, like JRPGs, to build the userbase - the base isn't already there, but if enough games come out like VP, VPA, and such, they will start selling real well.

Microsoft need's it's Mario, the Viva Pinata characters are not to the caliber that's needed. Sony got it right with Crash Bandicoot... send the mascott off to Nintendo's headquarters and call them out. Too bad Sony didn't keep with Crash, maybe we wouldn't have gotten all those horrible sequels on the PS2, GC and Xbox if they had.


 Sony never had Crash. They bought Naughty Dog after the agreement with Vivendi that gave away the rights to Crash (same with Spyro, but Sony hasn't bought Insomniac). 



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BenKenobi88 on 24 September 2007

I want Banjo!



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