Microsoft buys Rare!
 

Well if you don't believe that Microsoft has all the money the news and media says they have, think again...

"At the X02 European press event today in Spain, Microsoft confirmed that it has bought UK developer Rare. Microsoft's Ed Fries acknowledged that there have been many rumors alleging the company was planning to buy publishers ranging from Sega to Infogrames. In the case of Rare, the rumors were true, as a Nintendo source revealed last week. In a related statement, Microsoft announced that Rare was purchased for $375 million. No doubt to justify that price, Fries pointed out that $1 billion worth of Rare's games have been sold in the last five years.
There were some specifics on which of Rare's games and established franchises will come to the Xbox. The first Rare game for the Xbox will be Kameo, which was previously announced for the GameCube. The third-person action game stars a girl named Kameo who is gifted with the ability to capture wild beasts and then transform into them in battle. Microsoft showed some new Xbox footage of Kameo at X02, and it certainly looks like it will be a colorful and fast-paced action game.

Kameo is scheduled for a spring 2003 release. Microsoft also announced that Rare is working on a sequel to the Nintendo 64 shooter Perfect Dark. Rare expects to develop at least five Xbox games over the next two years in a variety of genres, including racing, shooters, and platformers."
Copied directly from: http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories...881404,00.html

Things are looking bad for Nintendo. Even Perfect Dark is going to be an X Box exclusive. Either way I'm a Sony fan boy. So I could care less.

Well, I still want Medal of Honor which is coming out on Cube

How old is this article? If it's older than a few weeks, then it's a load of crap.

Actually I read it to recently. Its true Raziel and Im happy. DIE NINTENDO!

Me too. Burn in hell Mario. Or something like that.

this fucking sux!

Haha I can see people waving flags with the Microsoft logo now!

people @ microsoft are jackasses

Yeah, but the people at Nintendo are jackasses for allowing this to happen. The problem for Microsoft is, Rare specializes is making NINTENDO GAMES. Possibly 5% of Microsoft's customer base will be interested in anything that Rare has to offer. Stuff like Banjo-Kazooie and Kameo will be almost entirely lost on XBox fanatics.

Most likely they won't be making games like Banjo Kazooie. Rare has been wanting to make Mature rated games for quite some time now. Even back in the Playstation and Nintendo 64 days of their prime, Rare was debating whether they should make games for the Playstation. The reason for this is because Rare didn't exactly want to make all those "kiddy" games such as Banjo-Kazooie. They were interested in games like Golden Eye 007, and Perfect Dark etc. When Rare made Conker's Bad Fur Day, it was part of an agreement for them to make a Mature rated game, or they would possibly jump ship and begin making games for other consoles. So more than 5 percent will be interested most likely. I mean look how many people jocked Halo. You don't think the same thing is going to happen when Perfect Dark 2 comes out? And you can almost gurantee that it's going to be multiplayer on X Box Live.

Duuuude Conkers Bad Fur Day is one of my all time favorite games! Can you imagine a sequal on the superior XBox? OMG! And Perfect Dark 2 for the Xbox? Rock on!

I don't think it was the smartest move on Rare's part most of all. They now have to spend a painful amount of time retraining their team to program for an altogether foreign console. Not only that, but regardless of the new product they release, they will still have to spend a great deal of time erasing the stigma that games like Banjo-Kazooie have stamped them with.

Overall, the fact is, this is just one of many awful mistakes Nintendo has made in the past. Dissolving their contract with Square is the biggest example I can give. But, regardless, they always seem to pull something else out of the air, and remain a strong competitor.

I want Conkers BFD 2!!! NOW!

I don't have an X Box. But now I'm considering it. Halo 2, Perfect Dark 2, all those kick ass games that Sega is making exclusively for the X Box. Not to mention that new Panzer Dragoon game. Dear God.

HAHA!!

lol

Well they're doing a fine job. Sony is still gonna whoop up on that ass though.

i hope microsoft DIES

Is that a threat? ;)

I guess that it is...


Thank God GC and PS2 are whooping x-box though.

yea, i agree

My order of favorites goes 1. PS2
2. The Cube(means gamecube)lol
3. X-box

I've got a ps2 just for the heck of it, and am quite fond of my cube. I wouldn't own an xbox if you paid me too. I'd prolly use linux but hell I'm not a programmer and prolly couldn't figure out how to emulate other os's inside linux to run other exclusive programs.

I've always wondered if the world would celebrate when bill gates dies...

i think some one will kill him first

Awe no, don't kill "poor" Billy. Obviously no pun intended.