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Message: [QUOTE="Tetronomicon, post: 313331, member: 79263"] It feels like the Microsoft Gaming division is in such a weird position right now. On one level, they're in a fairly dominant position on PC with their OS (as much as I'm looking forward to The Year of the Linux Desktop, it still hasn't made much a dent even with a multi-billion dollar gaming company (Valve/Steam) behind it). They've also basically set themselves up as a 3rd-party game developer not just as a software company but as hardware company (something Sega probably wishes they could have done). But my god... their internal game development workflow/pipeline is filled with nothing but shit and sewage. It has become far worse than it ever was in previous eras (which is saying a lot). Blows me away that the same company that published Age of Empires and Freelancer can't manage to even throw enough developers in the same room to make a game in an already established IP. Seems like the shortcut would haven been to just let the studio that made the IP work on it instead of having them on some other thing (Everwild) that also got cancelled on the same day as said IP did. The staggering irony of it all. Then again, considering Rare made Perfect Dark Zero... My understanding was that Nintendo wanted to offload Rare for reasons ranging from underwhelming outcomes throughout the N64 era (which in my opinion comes down to Nintendo and their third-party off-putting design decisions on the N64 itself... as well as just Nintendo's policies towards them (Square with Final Fantasy comes to mind here)) to not wanting to be upstaged by a developer they had an investment in (let's be honest... Donkey Kong was basically a dead franchise till Rare made the Country trilogy and most of their N64 platformers could go toe to toe on Nintendo's own system). There's no buyer without a seller. Nintendo could have probably bought them outright if they wanted to. They apparently decided to sell their share in Rare to Microsoft at the same time Rare did as well. Needless to say, it's rather unsurprising Nintendo took any offer someone would give them regardless if buyer even knew what they we're purchasing in the first place. Desperately pawning it off to the first comer seems in line with them at the time. As someone from the nation whose greatest claim to fame is our mass shootings, I can assure you we're as underwhelmed as the rest of the world when it comes to the FPS market. Also, weird to think MURICA FUCK YEAH from an IP made in the country we pew pewed our independence from but okay... [/QUOTE]

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