All Rare Games Possible For Vc

[enjoievan]

http://ds.ign.com/articles/817/817149p1.html

Read and rejoice.

"it's Nintendo's decision."

[SegaFan]

As the article said the answer is ambiguous. "As for Virtual Console, it's ultimately Nintendo's decision what gets released." This doesn't neccesarily mean that any Rare game can be released, just that it's Nintendo's decision out of the ones that can be released.

[enjoievan]

Read the article next time, Mr. Know-it-All.

They were responding to the question about Perfect Dark and Banjo-Kazooie.

RARE IPs.

Not only the Donkey Kong titles.

[hippiecrite]

Cool news. I've decided just to set my N64 back up though. I had most of those games for it anyway and honestly the N64 titles take up too much room on my channels array. I'd rather my Wii stand in as my SNES.

[Tull]

all i heard is bla bla bla we suck bla bla bla.

[Pocketim]

I WANT BANJO KAZZOOIE!I WANT BANJO KAZZOOIE!I WANT BANJO KAZZOOIE! It's a fun platformer, what else is to be said?

[Tull]

Originally Posted by Pocketim

what else is to be said?

Battletoads(series), Blast Corps, California Games(port), GoldenEye 007, R.C. Pro-Am(series), Snake Rattle 'n' Roll.

[Pit 42]

Does this mean that Nintendo would NOT have to settle any right isssues with Activision or Rare concerning Goldeneye?

This is great news, and I can't wait to play old favorites as well as missed classics.

[Angelic Lapras King]

Didnt Reggie say they were seeing if they can get Goldeneye onto the VC a few months ago? o.o

[SegaFan]

Originally Posted by enjoievan

Read the article next time, Mr. Know-it-All.

Hey, I only said what I thought, I could be wrong! I did read the article, and the letters page itself as well.

They were responding to the question about Perfect Dark and Banjo-Kazooie.

RARE IPs.

Not only the Donkey Kong titles.

Rare's letters page is famous for never giving out any "real" information. The questions and answers are usually intentionally comical, and occasionally give out ambiguous answers to questions to raise speculation that never comes to anything, it's almost never used for actual announcements.

The exact question was: "Will you ever strike a deal to allow games like Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark to be released on the Wii's Virtual Console in exchange for something like allowing them to be sold on Xbox Live Arcade?"

The answer was (copied exactly): "As for VC, it's ultimately Nintendo's decision what gets released. Beyond the DKC games we don't have anything in the pipeline at the moment, but that doesn't mean it won't happen in future. OMG CORPERATE ANSER#!1"

Yes, including the last part, that was part of the answer. It doesn't neccesarily refer to perfect dark and it's completely ambiguous, in classic Rare style. I'd love it to be true but I think it should be taken with a pinch of salt.

[enjoievan]

You understand when he said "games like 'Banjo-Kazooie' and 'Perfect Dark'" he obviously meant games with Rare IPs and this could not be interpreted any other way.

[SegaFan]

But with the context of the answer as well, they were kind of responding to various questions in the letters page about virtual console with that answer, and how the answer is interpreted is only how Rare want it to be interpreted. I have my doubts, but I hope you're right.

[Veszerin]

Reggie said that he is trying to get us Goldeneye for the VC.

[Sektor]

Originally Posted by tull

all i heard is bla bla bla we suck bla bla bla.

yer, me 2..

[kelvingreen]

Originally Posted by enjoievan

"it's Nintendo's decision."

I'm going to be a pessimist and read that as it's Nintendo's decision... whether or not they're going to pay vast amounts of money to Microsoft to have Rare games on VC.

[samaine]

Originally Posted by kelvingreen

I'm going to be a pessimist and read that as it's Nintendo's decision... whether or not they're going to pay vast amounts of money to Microsoft to have Rare games on VC.

I agree with Kelvin.

[Sektor]

Yes but they wud make a **** load of money back, everyone wud get them!

lol

[GoldeneyeGuru]

Any updates on Goldeneye???

[Shortay]

Originally Posted by GoldeneyeGuru

Any updates on Goldeneye???

Nope... No updates on any RARE game as of yet.

[Conker4ever]

http://gonintendo.com/?p=27124 It makes me very happy

[ICEknight]

Hmm, so they really can despites Rare being owned by MicroSoft?

They still might need the Rare guys to approve, though.

[The shoemaker]

It depends what characters are in the games. And if microsoft is in a good mood maybe they'll let us have a game or 2

[KeeperBvK]

Originally Posted by Conker4ever

http://gonintendo.com/?p=27124 It makes me very happy

The link doesn't work for me.
What does it say?

[Conker4ever]

In a nutshell, nintendo can release rare's old games(such as killer instinct, blast corps, Banjo 1&2, conker)on the virtual console because they were on nintendo's systems to begin with, and future rare games(Donkey Kong and Star Fox withstanding) will be on the system rare is with at said time(xbox 360 in this case). Quite "cut and dry" as stated in the interview.

[Conker4ever]

Also gonintendo hasn't been working right today.

[Pit 42]

Yes, but the question still remains: does Nintendo care enough to bring these games to VC?

Also, they still might need to get the James Bond VG rights from Activision...

[Conker4ever]

That's why we all should tell nintendo that they're fans still love Rareware. In Fact...:donkey kong:Four Ape salute.

[Shortay]

I have Goldeneye for my N64, and I'm holding back on getting any more RARE game until more news (hopefully good) on RARE releases, e.g. Banjo-Tooie, Perfect Dark and Majora's Mask (Even though it'll come out eventually and it's not RARE, I want to play it on VC).

[The shoemaker]

Originally Posted by Conker4ever

In a nutshell, nintendo can release rare's old games(such as killer instinct, blast corps, Banjo 1&2, conker)on the virtual console because they were on nintendo's systems to begin with, and future rare games(Donkey Kong and Star Fox withstanding) will be on the system rare is with at said time(xbox 360 in this case). Quite "cut and dry" as stated in the interview.

Are you saying if nintendo uses banjo and kazooie microsoft gets Donkey Kong?

[Conker4ever]

Oops, shoemaker discovered my grammar error. I meant OUTstanding not with, no no microsoft doesn't get DK and Star Fox. Man, I'm sorry, I'm really embarrassed right now. What an error.

[Conker4ever]

Oh, and the link should work now,BTW. Here is a link to the Rareware article again. Enjoy http://gonintendo.com/?p=27124.

[KeeperBvK]

Thanks. I'm gonna read it right away.

[Nintendu-64]

I'm hoping for DK64, both Banjos, and Conker's Bad Fur Day.

[The shoemaker]

DK I can understand but both banjos is very unlikeily. If banjo did come I bet Nintendo would sell it for 1200.

[Shortay]

Originally Posted by Nintendu-64

I'm hoping for DK64, both Banjos, and Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Even if Nintendo did release RARE games, Conker is M-rated...

[fire deity]

Wow, it said it was making banjo for us but stopped because of microsoft :@

[ZueriHB]

Originally Posted by Shortay-01

Even if Nintendo did release RARE games, Conker is M-rated...

Why sould that hinder Nintendo? The VC supports ratings. (Even Manhunt 2 was released, didn't it have a M-Rating too?)

[Shortay]

Originally Posted by ZueriHB

Why sould that hinder Nintendo? The VC supports ratings. (Even Manhunt 2 was released, didn't it have a M-Rating too?)

It's just that there are currently no rated games above 12+ in the EU and Conker is 17. Plus, in countries like Germany, games are banned for being too violent.

[SegaFan]

Originally Posted by Shortay-01

It's just that there are currently no rated games above 12+ in the EU and Conker is 17. Plus, in countries like Germany, games are banned for being too violent.

Conker is rated 15 here. But what difference does the age rating make? If Nintendo really are restricting games available on VC based on age rating then that would be right up there with region protection and 50Hz. But maybe the fact that there is no game over 12+ is because there aren't many retro games that are over 12+.

[Shortay]

Originally Posted by SegaFan

Conker is rated 15 here. But what difference does the age rating make? If Nintendo really are restricting games available on VC based on age rating then that would be right up there with region protection and 50Hz. But maybe the fact that there is no game over 12+ is because there aren't many retro games that are over 12+.

It's rated M for Mature by the ESRB.