I call my golden retriever seeing eye dog a Goldeneye dog

[Dark Jaguar]

Xbox One / Series Goldeneye 007 IS integrated with Rare Replay, though, in that if you own Rare Replay the game is free.  I was really surprised by that, lots of people own Rare Replay and giving all of them a free copy of Goldeneye is pretty generous, that probably lost a lot of sales...

Otherwise, the Xbox 360 version and X1 online play probably were casualties of Nintendo not wanting Microsoft to have a clearly better version of the game than they were getting.  That back and forth is a major part of why the X360/Wii versions never released in the first place, after all.  They came to an agreement this time, but unfortunately for only the original version of the game with some control tweaks.

I thought I'd mentioned that above.  But it isn't actually integrated into the Rare Replay interface, is what I'm saying.  Still, it's a nice little bonus (little being the operative word here, considering what we got).  In any event, think of it this way.  Goldeneye alone may not have been enough to motivate more people to buy that by itself, but adding Goldeneye to Rare Replay may have motivated a lot of people to get the whole bundle that may have slept on the original release until now.  It's a cross promotional thing and it's rather common these days, but still very welcome.

I've speculated on whether Nintendo may be responsible, but we don't know that to a certainty, since development of the 360 remaster actually started only AFTER the biggest Nintendo-side barrier died.  What I can say, and thought I did above, is that MGM turns out to have been the primary party responsible for how long the delay was in getting a Goldeneye rerelease from 2010 up until now.



Also, I have a strong suspicion at this point that this is actually an emulated slightly altered ROM of the original Goldeneye, and all the frame rate and resolution improvements are simply built into how the emulator handles N64 graphics.  I reproduced a glitch from the original game where I blew up too much stuff at once using cheat codes and caused graphic corruption of certain ammo sprites in the UI.  This glitch, being caused by the severe memory limitations of the N64, has no reason to occur in a true port of the game's code.

Oh and Rare Replay is still missing a significant chapter of Rare's history, and that's the SNES/Gameboy/Genesis era of their games.  Battletoads in Battlemaniacs, the arguably superior Genesis version of the first Battletoads, the unique sequel on Gameboy, and well the Double Dragon crossover title which... well that is it's own licensing hurdle.  Donkey Kong Country trilogy and DK64 also comes to mind but... we all know there's no way Nintendo is allowing those games anywhere near MS's console, but there's also a small library of Gameboy games missing from the lineup.  Oh yes, and all those GBA games released after MS bought Rare.  The Replay collection is still a great collection mind you, but I'd say there's over a dozen games missing from it at least so a full "Rare collection" still requires looking out side of it at this time, unfortunately.