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Originally posted by Idiot
For a start Mushlafa, there is no evidence of:
1: A breakdown between Nintendo and Rare.
2: The Stamper Bros, having any campaign to break away from Nintendo.
3: The Stamper Bros, can afford to buy out Nintendo's 45% stake in the company.
4: Rare has little chance of developing into a major softco. (Due to the dependance on Nintendo for a finnancialy safe infastructure.)
5: Rare games are an aqquired taste at times. Would Rare survive independent for long with it's essentialy British portfolio.
On another note, consider this: The Stamper Bros are worth £90. Nintendo provides Rare with financial, coding, creative, hardware and liscence support. Would you gamble this by going independent and a high probability of losing it all. Would you do that Mushlafa. I would probably think not.
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1. Matt explained it clearly. Rare isn't making them much money, if any. And if you look at how much Retro has done even with management problems, you gotta think they are moving away from Rare.
2. No one said there was. You made this one up.
3. If Nintendo chooses to sell it, yes. So could Bill Gates, doesn't mean it will happen.
4. That's true. But from the sounds of it, Nintendo wants Rare gone, so why would it matter if Rare actually does well afterwards?
Nintendo is a company looking to make money, they're not like MS who won't profit from Xbox, and likely will never make up for lost $$$. Rare takes forever to develop a game, and every day that passes costs more money to pay the employees. Now with games like GoldenEye, it's all worth it. But not all their games have done well, so it doesn't help Nintendo financially. Then they had dev kits before anyone, and they still don't have games out. Hell, Star Fox Adventures was already planned and in development for N64, they should've had this done a long time ago, and been ahead on Kameo and DKR.
If I were Nintendo, I'd be much more willing to put money into Retro, NST, and SK. NST is just damn good at making games, Retro has one of the best facilities in the world, and SK has tons of talent, and I want Too Human! I'm not even very interested in SFA, only the classic flying portion really. Don't care much for the sounds of Kameo, and DKR doesn't seem to be making any progress. Does this sound like a company who you want to put a lot of money into?
Look at Retro. They are just doing Metroid right now, because before the mangement problems they didn't get anything done. But they also have ideas, games planned that were canceled because of Metroid. Car Combat looked pretty sweet, and it was actually being developed if I remember right, to be an online game. Their football game had nice cheerleaders
