Will Microsoft sell Rare's IPs to Nintendo?
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Highly doubt they'll sell IPs, shutting down a studio is one thing but they'll hold a deathgrip around IP all the way to bankruptcy.
Just look at EA for example, they've closed down MANY studios but still maintain every one if those IP rights.
Including games like Syndicate and Populous.
And Command & Conquer
And Ultima
And Freelancer (though that one is MS holding on to it)
THAT one hurts my soul the most....
Yeah, that does sting. Did you know Zelda was semi based on Ultima.
Duuuuuude. Syndicate and Populous (II) were some of my favorite games from back in the day.
That reminder makes me sad.
Yeah, I thought about when someone mentioned Assassins Creed Syndicate.
This. IP is the product of a human soul, so the corpos can never produce their own. They will hold onto the ones they have like precious gems, even in death.
It's not even just managers and sharks, it's the company itself. It's a meta-organism that has an artificial consciousness and it is jealous of your soul. It will try to take it from you.
The Dawngate fiasco made things even more clear. They had shut down the game, the studio, and had no interest in even entering that market again because they weren't making League of Legends money when the game was still in beta. (And it was better than League with more variety in characters and they did the differentiated forms of income way better than league as well as having even "passive" gold generation be active and something you can control to an extent [there were workers mining that gold and you could attack the enemy workers to disrupt it or even capture the mine yourself, though it being right outside the enemy's base makes it a pretty clear case of defender's advantage])
Fans started a Kickstarter and hit their fundraising goal to buy the IP. Then, when they did this, EA realized they were serious and raised the price out of their reach. Fuck EA.
The only reason Microsoft would consider selling IPs is if they shutdown their gaming division.
Cortana is also no longer a factor in selling Halo back to Bungie considering they are discontinuing it, to bad it will make zero difference in regards to keeping the IP out of the grubby hands of woke jackasses and globalist conspirators just like with Epic and Gears of War.
I would trust Nintendo more than Microsoft to handle the rights to Banjo Kazooie.
Does it matter? Best game Rare did was the original Perfect Dark in 2000 and only because it was more or less a complete step up from the vastly popular Goldeneye from 1997, but with added bots so you could do more. All of which happened before Microsoft bought them in 2002. The sequel in 2005, Perfect Dark Zero, was shit.
Donkey Kong Country, Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, Donkey Kong 64, Banjo Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Battletoads. They've made a lot of good stuff in the 1990s and early 2000s.
There's over 150 games made by them. Some of it really generic.
Sea of Thieves is OK. There's lots of room for improvement, but I've played worse.
Sell Nintendo Viva Pinata.
That would be one of the most hilarious endings I can imagine. Especially if it sells well and gets a big sequel that also sells well.
I'm not sure why Nintendo would buy them. I assume Microsoft would hang on to Perfect Dark since I thought they were still making a game in that. Does Nintendo really want to make a Banjo-Kazooie game? What for? They could easily use their own IP and make as good of a game. I don't see them caring about any of the other IP at all.
Yeah, if Nintendo wanted to make a collectathon, there's no reason they wouldn't stick DK, Yoshi, or Wario in there.
If there's one thing Nintendo isn't short on, it's IP.
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