The recent resurgence of Banjo-Kazooie isn’t surprising, thanks in large part to the friendly releationship that Microsoft and Nintendo have. Banjo-Kazooie is playable in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and the first Banjo-Kazooie game is currently available to play on Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack’s Nintendo 64 library.
However, despite all the attention and announcements that the franchise has seen in the past 5 or so years, there hasn’t been a new Banjo-Kazooie game in many years. In fact, there’s quite a few Microsoft franchises that have gone dormant for a long time. Xbox head Phil Spencer addressed this in an interview with Windows Central, saying that “you’ve seen from our history that we haven’t touched every franchise that people would love us to touch — Banjo fans, I hear you. But it is true that, when we find the right team, and the right opportunity, I love going back to revisit stories and characters that we’ve seen previously”.
After Jontron reviewing Nuts & Bolts, Yooka-Laylee’s instant Kickstarter, people complaining Yooka-Laylee (for petty reasons), and Yooka-Laylee back-peddling from BK to be more like DKC, you finally hear people?
Nuts and Bolts 2 incoming.
What does Banjo do after a one night stand, he nuts and bolts.
Aw man! Even Banjo is getting a new game? Oh well. Once this hypothetical game comes out/releases its final DLC, we can diagnose this traitorous IP with death. Who knows? Maybe everyone will finally stop pretending they like xbox.
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Not really a fan of Banjo Kazooie but someone did mentioned before that they liked to bring in a new game in the franchise if they have the opportunity to bring in different type of gameplay mechanics and so. I understand fans want a new game in the series, but it’s tough to find ways on how to bring back a faithful IP.
Sort of stupid to buy Rare franchises and never plan on making new sequels from them. If I were a Billionaire unlike Microsoft, if I were to buy Rare I tell them to make as many Banjo-Kazooie franchises as you want and I won’t do anything to interfere with what yall had going since 1998.
Not Microsoft’s fault that Rare refused to make Banjo Threeie on Xbox. Their reasoning for refusing was because they thought there wasn’t an install base for that game because Grabbed By The Ghoulies didn’t sell well….
No one seems to understand that Rare has been given the liberty to make whatever they want for years, and Banjo Threeie isn’t what they want. By this point though, the old team is long gone and the new people there will eventually do it. But MS has always given them the liberty to do what they want.
Who turns down money? You mean to tell me for no reason at all they didn’t want to make a Threeeie? Now that’s just stupid. For no dumb reason just didn’t want to continue with the franchise.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/banjo-kazooie-dev-is-not-convinced-people-want-another-game/1100-6515658/
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/phil-spencer-says-a-new-banjo-kazooie-or-conker-is-up-to-rare/
We really don’t know if people would even want 3rd entry, of course we die hard banjo fans do, but we aren’t enough to support the game into success. They genuinely believe we don’t want a 3rd entry (or at least enough of us to make it successful) platonic tried it and that was the old team, and aside from the initial reception, everyone just stopped caring. Plus the guy that’s in charge right now really doesn’t want to thread old waters, and is the biggest reason for them not caring for the IP, including Conker. I forget the guys name, but he is one of the older guys in that team, still part of the original Rare.
I was told Microsoft went up and changed Rare’s headquarters and was forcing Rare to make sports games
That was just the narrative that people ran with. But MS has always made it clear that those motion games were always Rares choice.
https://www.destructoid.com/microsoft-didnt-push-for-kinect-development-rare-chose-it/
But it’s easier to keep saying that MS is killing Rare.
Unpopular opinion, but I like what they did with Conker: Live & Reloaded, which added new modes and new graphics from the N64 version. Nuts and Bolts tried to be a sequel, but ended up falling short in some ways. Perhaps instead we could get something like Conker had?
You mean a remake.
New content for people who didn’t buy/play the originals, while those who DID have to buy the games again and do everything all over again as if their playthroughs never happened.
I recently had that experience with Return to Dreamland.
Didn’t most of the team that made the British humour good in Banjo-Kazooie series leave to work in PlayTonic.
Yanks don’t have that same style.
Most, yes. Platonic has also expressed interest in working on a new Banjo.
Banjo Threeie should come to switch 2 and Xbox! :D
Don’t they know how much money they would have made if they continued with Banjo-Kazooie? Video game developers sure are stupid.