Rare continues to develop for Nintendo handhelds

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.cube-europe.com/news.php?nid=7989

[Great Rumbler]

Maybe if they make some good I'll be interested.

[Dark Jaguar]

What amazing SPIN those guys are capable of!

Note how they say Rare famously split FROM Nintendo to work for MS! They say that with the obvious goal of making the reader think it was Rare's idea. A much more honest way to say that would be to say that MS bought Rare FROM Nintendo, making it their mutual choice, not Rare's.

[A Black Falcon]

Cube-Europe isn't exactly the best Nintendo fansite around, that's true... but I'm sure the job listings are accurate. :)

I was wondering about this... I know Rare finished the GBA games they'd started before being bought by MS, and also did the ports of the DKC games (with DKC3 upcoming), but I wasn't sure if they were going to continue making new games for Nintendo handhelds. Its intresting to see that they are... I guess Microsoft doesn't mind making games for its competition, as long as it's for handhelds. (this makes me wonder about the PSP, though...)

[Great Rumbler]

Rare did have some say in it, in fact it was what they wanted apparently, but without Nintendo's approval they wouldn't have been able to fully leave.

[A Black Falcon]

All Rare had was being able to say their opinion (and threaten to quit if things didn't go a way they liked)... they had no say over the actual deal.

[Dark Jaguar]

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[Great Rumbler]

All Rare had was being able to say their opinion (and threaten to quit if things didn't go a way they liked)... they had no say over the actual deal.

The two brothers who owned the rest of the Rare could have sold their share to Microsoft and then MS and Nintendo would be joint owners of Rare, which I'm sure had some amount influence over Nintendo's decisions.

[Dark Jaguar]

What if, say, Free Radical, Zoonami, and Rare all combined back into their original fully powered form, and suddenly gained control of themselves as an independant entity, free to design games for whoever they wanted?

[A Black Falcon]

"What if"s are nice, but not usually very likely... sorry.

But you're right, even though Rare did want the change, even so some people left, and it left them hurting... I mean, all they've done is make one mediocre new game! ONE! Okay, they also finished three projects that they'd started before being bought (for GBA -- and one of them a remake), and finished a port, and did another port, and a remake, and are currently working on two games that have been in progress for a long time... but, ah... can we just agree that Rare has been lacking for some time now? :)

This/these potential DS game(s) will actually be the first NEW handheld games Rare has made since leaving Nintendo, since their other five were four titles they started before leaving and one that's a port. I wasn't sure if they would continue handheld development after finishing those games (and DKCIII of course), and it's interesting to see that they will... but it does leave me wondering, as I said earlier, if Microsoft will also do any PSP development.