Are the rumors true...

Are the rumors true? Did Nintendo really sell Rareware to Microsoft because they were jealous westerners were making games as good as the japs?

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yes, my dad works in nintendo and he can confirm that.

>Shigeru Miyamoto, wasn't a fan of Donkey Kong Country. He said in an interview with Electronic Games magazine around 1994: "Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good."

Yes absolutely. They were already seething when rareware britbongers reverse engineered snes.

He is only half wrong, because the gameplay of DKC was pretty fucking good, but most players indeed have that mindset.

No, because these are real people, not cartoon characters.

DKC (Rare) is incredibly overrated and looks like shit.

it was a mixture of Rare's failure to release games for the GameCube's launch, the last few games at Rare being financial failures and Nintendo shifting focus to Japanese devs.

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I do think there is some truth to Nintendo being absolutely fucking seething about DKC2 being the best platformer on the SNES.

Nintendo never owned Rare you dolt.

Banjo got so big at some point he was featured alongside Nintendo's characters in N64 box art and they were pissed off

plus asking for $20,000,00 while the Nintendo 64 was a flop is asking for a lot.

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its probably more likely Nintendo saw rare was losing their touch, i don't think history would have changed much if rare wasn't sold. they would have been let go or bought by someone else eventually. viva piñata games are quite literally the only good thing rare has done since leaving. conker remake is prettier but worse and as much as i like kameo its a very mediocre game objectively.

An official statement from Nintendo Official Magazine on why they didn't buy Rare

I don't think so because if that's the case then why did Nintendo let Retro Studios develop Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country Returns

The owners of Rare wanted out and didnt care who bought it

From what a I heard, nintendo sold rare because they were taking part of the money and just like that faggotron reggie they though they could make good games without the need of other company. Rare later change their vision after consecutive financial failures like conker sequel, banjo nuts and bolts and focused only on kinect. Also most of the original members that created the Snes and n64 jewels were long gone, some of them are now in platonic games and developed took a laylee. That's why I hate nintendo and never bought a console from them since n64 sadly we have a tons of fucking trannies supporting them

he famously never said that

>viva piñata games are quite literally the only good thing rare has done since leaving
And it's the exact kind of game Nintendo would have pushed them to pursue, while Microsoft merely allowed it. Also Rare typically followed up popular Nintendo games with similar games (SMW - DKC, SM64 - BK), and on GC all they had for inspiration was Sunshine and Windwaker.

>Also most of the original members that created the Snes and n64 jewels were long gone
they're part of Retro studios now and the people running Rare are huge faggots these days. Why would you abandon Nintendo for them?

Nintendo seethes because DKC was better than all of their games on the system except Super Metroid

>official statement
>it can be seen
>it appears that
why are nintencels so stupid? that is not an official statement. it's an article in a magazine with some quotes and some speculation

> i don't think history would have changed much if rare wasn't sold.
I’ve always wondered what this timeline would be like. I do know that Nintendo refused to use diddy Kong for the longest time, and if rare was still with Nintendo there was a good chance they might’ve sticked to using Jr.

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>doesn't fit my narrative
>why is this guy going against my narrative
>stupid nintencel

we could have got donkey kong racing i guess, would have been super interesting.

yeah it doesn't fit your narrative as it is clearly an article, not an official statement. no company releases an official statement in a promotional magazine. they have press releases for that kind of stuff. glad I could help educate it

what's it like being a dumb dumb

you tell me, nincel

Nintendo had 49% of Rare's stock and the Stamper Brothers had 51%, the brothers wanted Nintendo to buy their stake, but Nintendo refused, so they sold it to Microsoft. Afterwards, Microsoft offered to buy Nintendo's shares, which was eventually sold to them for $300M

And they thought they would get DKC from it, kek

From what I've heard, it was just one guy at Microsoft Studios that thought as much, not the entirety or anything.

Squitter would be a top tier animal buddy if he could jump on enemies to kill them instead of having to shoot them. Also if the walkable webs were a little less janky.