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Originally posted by Gekko
"And when they lose all the games that made them famous, they are basically starting at the bottom"
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Which is how all companies start out, and if any other company can start at the bottom and make their way up, surely Rare could to, right? Even if they lose the famous titles, doesn't mean their games won't be good... and if games are good, then hopefully enough people know who rare is and... stuff...
As for the games you listed... I dunno about JFG or Kazooie games, but I thought Nintendo fans go on about how conker sold bad because it came out when N64 was pretty much dead... And yet it's also proof of how Rare won't sell games without big names? It's not rare's fault that the game didn't sell well if it didn't sell well because N64 was dead... although it probably would have sold a bit better if they held it over and released it on NGC... but still...
As for PD... even if Nintendo owns the rights and stuff, it was still made by Rare and it still sold well... why? It's a rare First Person Shooter... Like goldeneye (which also wasn't some Nintendo franchise... although it was still some other big one
)... Rare makes good FPS... and I think that enough people in the game world place would know what goldeneye is and hopefully (if rare made some new First Person Shooter on say... PS2 ) enough people would be like "WHOA DUDE MAN THEY MADE GOLDENEYE SWEET WHOA DUDE"...
I mean sure maybe their games were big because they were Nintendo franchises... but it doesn't mean that their other games won't sell well on other systems... Why didn't they sell well on N64? Gee maybe cuz most people who buy N64 want it for NINTENDO'S games... and when you stick star fox or some other big Nintendo franchise on it, it becomes mega-hyped and stuff... If it doesn't have one, there's less of a chance of it selling big... ESPECIALLY on a Nintendo console...
Kameo has no hype? Gee, whyever could that be... maybe because we don't even know much about it (at least I don't think we do) and Rare is making another fairly small game by the name of Star Fox Adventures which everyone is paying a lot of attention to... It's not a major franchise game, and it's coming out in the middle of all these major franchise games... so it gets buried by them... this is what happens with a lot of games on PS2... some still get great reviews... 8's and 9's... but hey WHO CARES!? Metal Gear Solid 2 and FFX are coming out! WOOOO!
But maybe they will do bad if they go multiplatform... but hey, I can't see the future and neither can you, so if they do go multiplatform, we'll just have to wait and see how they do...