At 5/5/08 02:36 PM, Zoraxe7 wrote:
Also, I am wondering since Rare left Nintendo and joined with microsoft, will we still get to see Rare games like Golden eye, the Banjo Kazooie games, and such on the VC. Because those were some of the best games on the NG4.
In a word: no. I'm not sure what the fate of Banjo-Kazooie is, but since Rare retained the rights to the characters, I'm fairly certain we won't be seeing them on the VC.
As for GoldenEye, that's one of the biggest clusterfucks of legal confusion out there at the moment, likely keeping the game off of both the XBLA and the VC. You see, Nintendo originally published the game, and the game was on N64. However, developer Rare is now owned by Microsoft. However, the gaming license for the James Bond franchise now belongs to Activision-Vivendi. However, the overarching rights to the James Bond license belong to MGM Studios. Ugh.