28th November 2005, 10:03 PM
We "know" Rare still owns DKC? Um, but they don't from my understanding. Nintendo owns DK as well as every single character Rare made for the DK universe, apparently excepting Banjo (only mentioned because of his appearence in Diddy Kong Racing).
That's my understanding, and from what I've seen, even Rare's DK has that grin, and Nintendo's has basically taken it's entire look from Rare's envisioning of him.
Did you find some other information on this? I know Nintendo had Rare make the GBA remakes of the DKC games, but I think Nintendo could have done that on their own if they couldn't get Rare to cooperate. I really don't think Nintendo would give up the rights to those games. It would be like Nintendo giving up the rights to the Zelda games Capcom made. Capcom, for example, made Vaati in the first Four Swords, but Nintendo didn't even bother mentioning Capcom in the credits of Four Swords Adventures.
Royalties may be involved, but you seem to know something I don't (wouldn't be a first), so enlighten me.
It just seems it would be a little too charitable of Nintendo to give up such rights. Imagine if Rare decided to make a new DKC game, only this time the D stands for Diddy. Considering two of the DKC games only showed the big D himself at the very end of the game, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to simply make a new Donkey Kong game with all the trappings except there would be no mention of Donkey Kong himself. Rare would easily be able to get away with that if Nintendo let them keep the rights to the characters they made for the DK universe.
That's my understanding, and from what I've seen, even Rare's DK has that grin, and Nintendo's has basically taken it's entire look from Rare's envisioning of him.
Did you find some other information on this? I know Nintendo had Rare make the GBA remakes of the DKC games, but I think Nintendo could have done that on their own if they couldn't get Rare to cooperate. I really don't think Nintendo would give up the rights to those games. It would be like Nintendo giving up the rights to the Zelda games Capcom made. Capcom, for example, made Vaati in the first Four Swords, but Nintendo didn't even bother mentioning Capcom in the credits of Four Swords Adventures.
Royalties may be involved, but you seem to know something I don't (wouldn't be a first), so enlighten me.
It just seems it would be a little too charitable of Nintendo to give up such rights. Imagine if Rare decided to make a new DKC game, only this time the D stands for Diddy. Considering two of the DKC games only showed the big D himself at the very end of the game, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to simply make a new Donkey Kong game with all the trappings except there would be no mention of Donkey Kong himself. Rare would easily be able to get away with that if Nintendo let them keep the rights to the characters they made for the DK universe.
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