Poor Microsoft, they couldn't even own Diddy Kong, never mind DK.
Maybe MS should've just bought Nintendo.
Well they did think about it. http://www.edge-online.com/news/moore-ms-wanted-buy-nintendo/
Poor Microsoft, they couldn't even own Diddy Kong, never mind DK.
Maybe MS should've just bought Nintendo.
look carefully at the picture.aren't "mushroom zombies" the plot to TLOU
I always wondered if Rare held some kind of rights to some of their work under Nintendo.
The donkey kong country trilogy got pulled from the virtual console, donkey kong 64 was never put up, and donkey kong country returns had different enemies.
That can't be true, it's so stupid. :lol
Can you imagine if Microsoft got Mario too??? That would be so good!!
Darn. We could've got a F2P Donkey Kong Country 4, and each barrel only costs $2.99.
Misleading title? Misleading title.
Well, let's do some mind work, how could DK be right now? DKCR is bashed by hardcore fans, and doesn't look that bad of a game from my Xboxer point of view (actually I'm not on the +80 metacritic or bust hive mind), so, could it be even more outrageous on Microsoft hands?
Misleading title? Misleading title.
Well, let's do some mind work, how could DK be right now? DKCR is bashed by hardcore fans, and doesn't look that bad of a game from my Xboxer point of view (actually I'm not on the +80 metacritic or bust hive mind), so, could it be even more outrageous on Microsoft hands?
Poor Microsoft, they couldn't even own Diddy Kong, never mind DK.
Maybe MS should've just bought Nintendo.
Can you imagine if Microsoft got Mario too??? That would be so good!!
Admittedly I suppose if it was a drive to the other side of the highway I WOULD try that first before booking tickets to another country.There was always that story that when Microsoft went to buy Nintendo (before Xbox came out), they went to Nintentdo of America Not sure how much truth was in that, it was in the Xbox story book...
Well, they did make those Panasonic Zelda games. Microsoft owning the rights of a DK game in some fashion wouldn't be totally without precedent. Hell, maybe that's why the DKC games came down from the Virtual Console.
There was always that story that when Microsoft went to buy Nintendo (before Xbox came out), they went to Nintentdo of America Not sure how much truth was in that, it was in the Xbox story book...
Nintendo published everything up until Banjo Kazooie, so almost certainly not. If Rare still owned the IP, you wouldn't even have a DKCR to begin with.
Microsoft =/= one employee. smh
Can you imagine if Microsoft got Mario too??? That would be so good!!
It'd probably be insanely easy to just null out the instances of those Rare logos in the game's intros though, and given they topped the VC chart's it's not like Nintendo wouldn't have bothered. My money is on Rare *somehow* still having a stake in the code of the games itself, an agreement Nintendo reached with Microsoft during the buyout but expired after a decade last year.Neither Rare nor MS own the the Donkey Kong Country games.
However, what is SLIGHTLY plausible is that the presence of the Rare logo in the games requires permission or licensing from MS... I'm not sure if that's what's going on, but I could actually see that being a vague issue -- Nintendo got the rights to reissue titles with the Rare logo until ____.
Again, that's just my speculation, but it makes more sense than anything else I can think of.
I always wondered if Rare held some kind of rights to some of their work under Nintendo.
The donkey kong country trilogy got pulled from the virtual console, donkey kong 64 was never put up, and donkey kong country returns had different enemies.
hey maybe retro didn't use them because you're lame did you ever think of thatRetro didn't use them because they're lame.
hey maybe retro didn't use them because you're lame did you ever think of that
Seriously though while I'm ultimately indifferent about whether they come back or not (though I maintain K. Rool's a hilarious villain whose identity crisis/multiple personality disorder needs to be explored more), I saw the tiki's (who were cool in their own right) as Nintendo compromising on Retro's desire to do something new and let them have more creative liberties with DK than they had with Metroid.Don't shoot the messenger. If Retro gave a shit about those guys they'd have been in the new DKC games. The Kremlings are from another era.
Before Transformed and MK7 I'd of wanted a Diddy Kong Racing 2, but at this point it seems pretty redundant. Jungle Beat and Jungle Climber were great games in an otherwise dumb, gimmicky period of Donkey Kong.Diddy Kong Racing HD on XBLA
*drools*
To be honest, outside of DKCR the DK franchise has been pretty shit since Rare left it and it was only a facsimile of their work that has brought greatness back furry bastard.
If MS had bought Nintendo, that audience alone would have enabled Rare to make the games they always did. They wouldn't have to be crushed into a Kinect mini games studio.
MS would have had one box with Nintendo support in Japan, Rare, Halo, Xbox Live, and great third party support for stuff like CoD, GTA, and Madden. Could have been interesting.
HAHAHA!
On another note... imagine what DK under MS would've been like... X(