Xbox co-creator Ed Fries has revealed on the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered that Activision nearly managed to get the rights to Rare. Fries said it was looking increasingly likely that Activision would get Rare until Microsoft increased their bid at the very last-minute meaning that they took control of the company behind Banjo and Conker.
“So we put in a bid and then Activision outbid us, and it looked like we were going to lose the deal,” Xbox co-creator Ed Fries explained on the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, which debuts tomorrow. And then at the very last minute Robbie increased our bid and we won the deal. And that was it,” Fries said, adding, “Who knows what could have happened with Rare.”
BANJO X CONKER CONFIRMED
It wouldn’t be as bad as it is now. That’s for sure.
Activision could even release a Banjo-Kazooie game per year. LOL.
No it wouldn’t, Activision has the tendency that f a game fails once (Nut’s and Bolts) they keep the game in hell forever and use it only when they can milk it, regardless of quality.
Hate Nut’s and Bolts all you want, but at least it’s a good game overall (it was carefully made), Activision wouldn’t have cared about that. In fact they would have milk Banjo Kazooie and Conker so much that we would hate both franchises and Rare would be then shut down and Activision would keep ALL of their IPs never to be seen again.
At least Microsoft gave us that Rare Collection on Xbox One for 60$
Microsoft tried to make good games and failed
Activision would try to make bad (but profitable) games and succeed
So you would rather the game series milked until even YOU hate it then the IPs would never be seen again? Pfffft
||So you support Xbots after all…||
No Activison is worse tho. -_-
||Nothing is worse than the Microsoft Realm…||
You think Microsoft did IPs bad? Trust me Activison would’ve did Conker and Banjo worse.
||When it comes to the Microsoft Realm, their pathetic weaponry is the least of my problems with them…||
Microsoft can’t do anything right you’re correct on that but if Activision treats IPs worse than Microsoft THAT’S sayin something.
||In the largest of designs, it doesn’t matter, I want the Xbots to lose on every battle, even if some others are somewhat worse than them in some area…||
http://es.tinypic.com/r/ezlgth/9
https://youtu.be/gECUnQBkT8w?t=7s
That scene was funny.
||Anything else?…||
“It seems Activision got away with the location of Luke Skylander…”
||The location of Skylander is insignificant, next to the power of Ancient Rare…||
Pretty much everyone’s reaction to this.
That sounds worse… Skylander
I would rather have Microsoft owning Rare than Activision. Microsoft let Rare do whatever they wanted, Activision would have milk Rare until it was worthless and then kill it and say “now we own their souls and there’s nothing you can do about it”.
And which one of these companies would’ve been the lesser of two evils (and that’s without getting into EA and Konami)?
We barely escaped the possibility of Banjo ending up in Skylanders. Phew
Having Rare IP getting milked till its worthless
Or
Having Rare IP never to be seen again, but still have good memories with them
Talk about picking your poison.
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place
If Activison likes milking franchises then why haven’t we gotten a new Crash? Maybe it would be different for Banjo but who knows.
Seems like everyone in the comments forgot about the other IPs Rare has; the only others that come to mind being Battletoads & Perfect Dark (hell, on the Nintendo side, the DKC trilogy). Probably might have gotten a sequel or two to majority of the games + easier for Nintendo to re-release the DKC trilogy on the VC.
But then I saw the comment about “Skylanders”…and then I was glad Microsoft bought them first.
I don’t see any lesser evil here. :/ Although, Perfect Dark might have been better off in Activision’s hands. As for the others, they probably would have been screwed.