Activision bought out Rare!!!!!?!?!?!?!

[Shadow_Link]

Er, Joeiss and Bond, if you did notice, I put a quote up (obviously from the article ), I never said you said that Bond. I was just pointing out something a bit iffy in the article.

[Idiot]

Meanwhile, the rumour trundles on, with no truth behind it......

[Xantar]

Originally posted by Bond
Now lets not even get into that idiot known as Shane, ok?

Whether or not Shane is an idiot, he's right about this one. Let's look at what he said on The Spot.

It's not true. This rumor was started on a message board on a fan site purely to see how quickly the false information would spread. Everyone who sent me effigies mourning the death of the great Rare/Nintendo relationship can stop crying now.

And here is a thread from the Gaming Age forums reacting to Shane's reply and admitting that the whole rumor was started by one particular Lord Federman back in March. A few choice quotes from that thread...

WE'RE FAMOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait a minute, we can't be a fan site!

Beware the power of Gaming-Age.

Does Shane visit GA?

It is border-line scary what this forum and Lord Federman have done. I mean, wow.

It's just like I told you guys before in another thread. This was all started as a joke on a message board at Gaming Age.

[GameKinG]

Rare COULD branch out to a 3rd party, but they would not get some of the benefits mike stated in his earlier post.

1. They are the first to get the hardware and development tools (and it's free)
2. First to get any upgraded tools
3. Know all the secrets in Nintendo's camp ahead of anyone
4. They are paid by Nintendo until they get a game out and the game starts to pay (many 3rd party games suck because developers need to sell the game to afford working on the next one)
5. (In Nintendo's camp) they can delay a game until it's really ready to get on the shelves without pressure from the publisher
6. They don't pay for costs of publishing, marketing distribution, etc.
7. If the games is not that great as expected, they don't have to survive on the bad sales of the game.
8. Free support from the 1st party develoment teams in crucial part of games (designers, writers, programers, engines, tools, codes)

I think sticking with nintendo and re-sgining a contract would be smarter.

Of coarse this information is useless, as this whole topic is just a rumor started on a board.

[Angrist]

I don't think that you can call a 5 pages' topic useless.

[Gamer]

K, one thing is for sure, rare would never be bought out by a multi platform company. They have been working solely with Nintendo since...forever, i am sure they wouldnt mess that up. Plus, i dont personnally think that activision has the moola to buy out Rare. If anyone bought them out it would be Nintendo.

Edit : oops, i never realised that this topic was so long, maybe i should have read the other 5 pages before posting...or maybe not.

[Blix]

Originally posted by Gamer
K, one thing is for sure, rare would never be bought out by a multi platform company. They have been working solely with Nintendo since...forever, i am sure they wouldnt mess that up. Plus, i dont personnally think that activision has the moola to buy out Rare. If anyone bought them out it would be Nintendo.

Edit : oops, i never realised that this topic was so long, maybe i should have read the other 5 pages before posting...or maybe not.

Not forever. They once had a different name. I think it was Ultra Games or something like that.

[DeathsHand]

Originally posted by Nemesis

Not forever. They once had a different name. I think it was Ultra Games or something like that.

I think Ultra was a company related to Konami... they made the NES ninja turtle games... and Metal Gear on NES... and of course, Konami made the newer games of the same series...

[Angrist]

Weren't 'Snake rattl and roll' and some other Rare games also released on a Sega???

www.rareware.com

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