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MS buys Rare
Published by Spider
09-10-2002
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Let's see.
The original owners and developers, "the Stamper brothers", are being bought out. So, I guess they won't be involved very much with the development from now on.
Rare doesn't have as much to do with Nintendo as they used to.
Microsoft just purchased them. I guess to develop for Xbox. Microsoft will most likely have to buy out Nintendo's stake also.
So, I'm trying to figure out what Microsoft bought besides some old royalties for old games and some employees for 1/2 billion dollars.
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presumably, whatever contracts they have for current and future work. plus any copyrights and patents they may hold.
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Kane, microsoft is well known for buying a developer - then letting them make their own games. Rare is worth that much money, cause they have such a huge track record. I doubt much will change, other than the fact that nintendo basically just lost one of their biggest devs.
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Microsoft's going to sart a monopoly
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I said this before in these forums and I guess I was right!
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"Going" to start? Oh they've already started, we can be sure of that.
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By
AK47
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09-10-2002, 07:28 PM
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MS buys Rare.
AK buys an Xbox.
Problem Solved.
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Yes AK has it right, all each of us has to do is by and Xbox & we all end up owning a little piece of microsoft.  |
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By
SKYHN
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09-10-2002, 07:44 PM
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Does anyone see whats going on here? Rather than let the developers choose which platform(s) they want to develop for, MS is just buying them up and making them develop for Xbox. So now it doesnt matter that Xbox isnt selling, if MS owns every major developer and doesnt allow them to develop for the other systems, Xbox cant fail.
When Sega was going head to head with Nintendo with the Genesis VS Super Nintnedo, did this kinda thing happen? No. When Sega, Nintendo and Sony battled it out, did this happen? No. So MS steps in, with their bags of money, and is gonna do things the way they want.
All the while Xbox owners are cheering MS for what they are doing, not knowing its killing console gaming as we know it. Im just gonna sit back and watch what was once a great line of entertainment turn into a whore house and watch as MS releases a console that costs $600, because its the only one on the market.
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No, I only see a very paranoid individual with a public hate for Microsoft expressing his private nightmare
Microsoft cannot kill console gaming - unless they can buy out the country of Japan and all the console companies over there... |
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By
SKYHN
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09-10-2002, 08:03 PM
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Originally posted by Canis Lupus
No, I only see a very paranoid individual with a public hate for Microsoft expressing his private nightmare
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I wouldnt say paranoid. Just expressing my thoughts that I dont want something that has been a part of my life since I was 5 to be lost. Would you? |
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