God, Now I kind of hope this is true so I can just see what you type then. Heh. Ric, you can't just close this off. You might be right, you might be wrong..but..geez..it looks like it has a chance of happening.

I agree with everything you said :D

:sneaky:

I like seeing what people say when they're like 100% sure one thing's gonna happen, but then something else happens... it's funny.... :sneaky: :sneaky: :unsure:

bye

With all the rumors guaranteeing Rare's departure from Nintendo, and the fact that Rare has done nothing to quell these rumors, i believe we can all start leaning towards the way of "Rare waves bye-bye":D

(I don't really care, as I am getting a GC, but I find provoking Ric amusing)

Everybody should listen to Ric because he's (Probably) British. Indeed.:D

I see the "rumor mill" is at full force. :rolleyes: Everyone that is buying into this crap: you are all easily scammed.

I won’t believe a damn thing until I hear an OFFICIAL announcement by Rare themselves.

Somehow I think the only way Rare will leave is if it gets finacial support from Microsoft and Sony to develop games for their consoles.

But I really don't see the point in them leaving, I mean it's not as if those frachise would sell as great on the X-Box or PS2 as well as they sold on a Nintendo system. Not leaving out the fact that each game will appear on all consoles (like Tony Hawk).

Still rather pointless if you ask me. Although I remeber hearing a rumour about Starfox heading to PS2; but if I'm not mistaking it was shot down.

Bit of a stupid rumour if you ask me. How can starfox, a game containing a nintendo mascot, appear on another console? :-o

I wonder when we will learn the truth about the whole situation...

Indeed. Some people don't get British humour. And Rare are as British as you can get... Still...

Has anyone noticed that Rare hasn't said anything in this yet? The rumor spread with the release of the Christmas card, yet Rare hasn't said a thing afterwards. Either I'm missing out on something, or people needs to ask RARE for solutions, not NINTENDO.

The God damn rumor mill running at full force, and some of you people are buying into it. :rolleyes:

Maybe I will actually buy into it, when I hear an OFFICIAL announcement from Rare themselves. :unsure:

Do you have a good reason that you dont beleive the rumor? Do you have any evidence that sais its not true..

On the other hand.. you got rare keeping their mouth shut about it.. not saying anything at all.. not denying it .. and you have a lot of major news sources saying that its going to happen for sure .. they are 100% sure.. Why not beleive them.. IGN is usually right bout these sort of things :p

"Rare is just teasing IGN."
-Ric

Rare is just making a mockery of IGN (playing with their heads). Sorry, but I don't buy into rumors that easily. :shakehead

What can I say...? Most N-fans don't really mind about Rare now with all the rumors... The only games I want them to make for the Cube are PD0 and KI3.

Good, because it would be Rare is :p

No it wouldn't. "The police are investigating blah blah..." Rare ARE. :p

I never believed that SFA will be released on other consoles, but Rare developing for other consoles is possible. :p

Ahem.. lemme get back to you on that.. I'm pretty sure "the police" is plural.

Yup, it is.

Star Fox won't be released on other consoles because Nintendo owns the rights to the name. Perfect Dark, Kameo, and Conker is basically all that would leave.

Does Rare own the rights to Diddy, Dixie and that other fat little kong? And what about those Kongs in DK64? Who owns all of them???

Nintendo probably.

Nintendo publishes the Donkey Kong series, so I think they have partial rights to the franchise. I dunno; I could be wrong...:eyes:

Nintendo owns the Donkey Kong franchise...

OK, this is a pretty old topic, but I didn't want to make a new one.

So, here's the news (which most of you will have heard by now). Microsoft is about to buy Rare for £350 million.

This topic was about Rare going multiplatform and a lot of people didn't want this to happen. Now they're going MS exclusive. I hope it isn't true.

Here are some links:
http://www.rarenet.com/cgi-bin/ib/ik...ct=ST;f=1;t=21
http://www.rareops.com/news/news.php?&index=132
http://www.raretopia.com/news/2002/09/06.html
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...y.php?id=79789
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content...me=dev&aid=663

So far its most evidently not.

ok hold up... rare wanted to do this to make more money right? So if they go from being exclusive to nintendo to exclusive to microsoft how does that help their situation at all?

and if im not mistaken... Gamecube is selling better than xbox worldwide?

If Microsoft does a corporate take over, they could force enough share holders to sell until they get the majority of shares and Rare would have no choice.

If thsi won't be happening, Rare will choose what to do, but in the rhythm they work they will need a lot of financing available which will be hard to find and it might flopp. That's why Nintendo doesen't want, and maybe that's why the brothers are thinking of getting a fresh start. They have lost some of their best people to indipendent companies anyways.

I am totally fine with Rare going multiplatform, as long as they dont make exclusive Xbox games cuz I dont have one. :p

And I agree, Rare barely makes Nintendo any money, seriously, does everybody remember when SFA was announced as a GCN launch title? then it was pushed to december, then march, then july, then finally september! like WTF, they produce one awesome game every 2 years, if that, and if they make games on PS2 they wont be houded for them to be perfection. :p

Besides, all Nintendo has to do is open up another devlopment house (like Retro) or maybe pick up another 2nd Party developer...I'm sure they have enough money.

Edit: WTF..this thread is old...I just realized that.

Very old... :D
Hope it ain't true.

Very old... :D
Hope it ain't true.