Microsoft to buy Rare?

[DarkMaster]

Originally posted by Null
1) dont be so jumpy to assume this is true untill rare themselves says it.

2) nintendo did not do anything stupid with sony, and they were not making a console together. they were making an addon, and that addon would have failed. as all do.

3) they did not refuse square for 6 years. Square did NOT want to make games for N64, thats the reason they left, they wanted to make games on CD.
Nintendo turned them down for a couple years from the GC and AGB, but it gets them new games instead of remakes like square was planning.

Square did not want to make games for N64 because it wasnt CD based. why wasnt it CD based? beacuse nintendo did not want to use sony's CD installed base addon for the N64. why did nintendo not want to use sony's CD addon? because apparently nintendo was afraid that the CDs load times would dis-satisfy their customers. Square needed a CD based console to make their games because cartidges couldn't handle the extreme amount of information and graphical powress (FMVS, pre-rendered backdrops) that they use in almost all of their games. a few years later square offers to make some games for nintendo, wut does nintendo say? piss off, thats wut they say. Nintendo's president was too stubborn to allow square to develop games for their console, "I don't care about Square, they chose Sony over Nintendo years ago so they can stay with Sony!!" the arrogant words of the Nintendo president. Either way, this really has nothing to do with Rare leaving nintendo. I'd rather Rare just stay with nintendo, it'll be less crap i'll have to read from arrogant Xbox fanboys.