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already posted and theyre not gone, just multiplatform

Nintendo's losing what has allowed it to survive...its exclusive titles.

If Nintendo keeps losing its in-house groups (think Rare to Microsoft, and now this), it won't have much of a future...

yeah rare was such a huge loss /sarcasm

i mean it was such a loss to nintendo to not have grabbed by the ghoulies on gcn /more sarcasm

nintendo always has first party, where the true games are.

Originally Posted by SneakyPenguin i mean it was such a loss to nintendo to not have grabbed by the ghoulies on gcn /more sarcasm nintendo always has first party, where the true games are.

It's hard to say what might have been, but imagine what Rare could have done with the Donkey Kong characters on the Cube...I'm pretty sure that the new Conker game and (most likely) Grabbed by the Ghoulies wouldn't have existed if Nintendo still owned Rare.

Who knows? Rare might have done great things if it hadn't been bought by Microsoft...

Geez. Why'd you have to get me all excited like that?silicon Knights silicon sucks.

edit: Rare never did great things, and they never would. That was a happy day.

Originally Posted by DenisDFat Geez. Why'd you have to get me all excited like that?silicon Knights silicon sucks. edit: Rare never did great things, and they never would. That was a happy day.

You have problems with being positive, don't you? I think I've seen you make ONE post here that was slightly positive.

Being less negative wouldn't kill you...

Originally Posted by Gothic_Walrus You have problems with being positive, don't you? I think I've seen you make ONE post here that was slightly positive. Being less negative wouldn't kill you...

it would probably even help yor health, cause then people plotting to kill you because of your vices wouldnt anymore.

Rare never did great things? Lest we forget...Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong Country, and all the associated sequels and spinoffs.

Normally I wouldn't point this out, but hey...300th post.

I will miss Silicon Knights as an exclusive develper for Nintendo. Hopefully, they will support one of the the next/current systems I own. I thought Eternal Darkness was great - granted, they had a LONG time to complete it. They didn't really have a chance to do something new/great with MGS:TS.

RARE started sucking with Star Fox Adventures. Were did their talent go?

I don't think Rare will do anything great either. I'm not really looking foward to the releases of Conker and Perfect Dark Zero anymore because I know they won't be as good without Nintendo looking over their shoulder.

I am however a bit sad to see Silicon Knights branch out, but you gotta do what's best for business. And to be honest I don't know if they will do as well on thier own either.

Originally Posted by Gothic_Walrus Who knows? Rare might have done great things if it hadn't been bought by Microsoft...

I'm not a Microsoft fan boy by any stretch of the imagination but, Rare's crappy line up has nothing to do with MS. It has to do with all the talent being sucked out of the company before MS brought it. That is why Nintendo didn't buy it.

MS obviously thought buying it up and throwing money at it would shove quality back into the company -- they were/are wrong. Rare is crap on their own right.

Rare never had talent to begin with.

DKC was the best of the bunch listed, and it was extremely average

All about GoldenEye.

Goldeneye, Perfect Dark was the fuking bomb. Rare was a good company, and i hope Nintendo's loss of both Rare and Silicon Knights doesn't lead to its failure.

Nintendo needs to do something quick. NOA is in things up really badly

Every game that Rare is currently making for Microsoft started off as a Nintendo game. The fact that they have yet to finish the update of Conker, an N64 game, makes me believe Nintendo was right in passing them by. Silicon Knights also was pretty slow in delivery. This is not a death knell for Nintendo. SK games will most likely still appear on the GameCube as well as PS2 and Xbox, unless Sony and Microsoft throw fistfuls of money for exclusives, but Nintendo is free to do the same.

As much as I like the Big N, with MS and Sony not going anywhere anytime soon, I almost wouldn't mind seeing Nintendo phase out and become a developer and just working with the handheld side of things. Keeping up with 3 systems just sucks.

except one system has 0 decent games on it.

XDude, i'm looking at you.