Topic: Will Rareware Games Ever Appear on Virtual Console?

[Kytim89]

There has to be some glimmer of hope of these games appearing on virtual console.

[Kytim89]

If these games were to be released on virtual console, I am sure Nintendo's servers would probably explode at the sheer amount of people on there down loading Rare games.

[NWR_insanolord]

Sorry to be blunt, but no, there is no realistic hope of any more Rare games hitting the VC, outside of DK 64, and even then there are hurdles. If you want those games you need to buy a 360 or dig out your old hardware.

[Kytim89]

Because these games were developed for Ninteno consoles in the past, they should atleast appear on the virtual console service.

[Mop it up]

Despite his username, Insanolord knows what he is talking about. It would be wise to listen to him.

And? That doesn't change my point. Nintendo didn't sell Rare because they never owned Rare, they only had a minority stake in the company.

Your point doesn't change my point. Saying "they sold Rare" is just a simplified way of saying "they sold their shares of the company."

[TJ Spyke]

Yeah, but then someone who sells 5 shares of Google cold say they sold Google.

Kytim, there is almost no chance that Microsoft-owned IPs will appear on the Virtual Console. Virtual Console is a rival service to Xbox Live Arcade and Wii is a rival to Xbox 360. The only reason they ever let their IPs be released on Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS is because Microsoft doesn't have a portable game system (plus maybe wanting to help Sony suffer since Sony was the reason they chose to make a console in the first place).

[Dirk Temporo]

Because these games were developed for Ninteno consoles in the past, they should atleast appear on the virtual console service.

Why do you keep repeating the same basic statement over and over without any regard to the facts presented earlier in the thread? There are too many licensing issues. Never going to happen. Get over it.

[Kytim89]

Probably what I will do when I get some more money is to hunt down and buy the N64 Rare titles and play them on my N64.

[Kytim89]

My time machine should be nearing completion soon. I plan to travel back in time and prevent the purchase of Rare by Microsoft. 

[King of Twitch]

Do you think The Cabbage will ever appear on the Virtual Coleslaw?

[vudu]

My time machine should be nearing completion soon.

Judging from this ancient thread I'd say it's already working pretty well.

[Kytim89]

My time machine should be nearing completion soon.

Judging from this ancient thread I'd say it's already working pretty well.

I just hope that the time  machine does not send me back to the era of the Collecovision and Atari 2600. I would be pissed.

[Mop it up]

Just buy the games on the Nintendo 64 already. The only one that'd likely be difficult to find for less than $10 is Banjo-Tooie.

[Kytim89]

Just buy the games on the Nintendo 64 already. The only one that'd likely be difficult to find for less than $10 is Banjo-Tooie.

I have them all.

[Mop it up]

All 11?

So why do you care if they come to the VC then?

[Kytim89]

I have them all for my N64, but I have not had much time to play them and it is kind of a pain in the rear to plug my N64 up to my TV that my wii and PS2 is using. I apologize for bringing up this tired and defeated topic again, but I worry that one day older cartridges will be extinct and the consoles they were played on will be gone too.

[Caterkiller]

Look man, there is a pretty cool device that plays Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and NES games all on one system. I saw it at E3, I believe there might be one for N64 catridges as well. If there isn't you can bet the same company is thinking about it. Buy 2 of em and delete this thread.

[ThePerm]

They can still end up on DS, Microsoft seems larely uninterested in competing with Nintendo on the handheld front.

[Mop it up]

I don't know, I think due to low sales of Diddy Kong Racing, they probably think that it wouldn't be worth the effort to release the games onto the DS.

[ThePerm]

That is true, remakes are a problem though. I loved Diddy Kong Racing on N64, but i don't find the need to rebuy it.

i wonder though, if Rare made a new banjo game on 3ds, how well would it sell? Most of Rare's userbase were Nintendo owners, do they wonder why their sales are 4thed on Microsoft consoles?

[Kytim89]

My biggest beaf with this whole issue is that Microsoft drove Rare further into the ground. I mean they were heading that way on their own any way, but if they had stayed with Nintendo they might have turned it around.
 
I mean look at the abismal sales/acceptance of Perfect Dark Zero, Conker: Live and Reloaded and some cases the Perfect Dark remake are signs that Rare only got worse under Microsoft's domain.
 
I just have to wonder what the wii woud be like if Rare and Nintendo never split up?
 
If Rare titles will never return to a Nintendo console, and they wont, the only people who will get money from me at all will be the second handers who have used copies of the Rare SNES and N64 cartridges or emulaters.
 
The biggest obstacle to this issue is not Microsoft or Rare, but Nintendo themselves. Let us assume that some kind of deal was to be made, Microsoft says, "Okay Nintendo, you can have Conker and Banjo on the VC service, but since Rare developed Donkey Kong and Star Fox games, we want those on Xbox live, too." Nintendo will never allow their intellectual properties to be ported to non-Nintendo products.
 
Word on the internet is that Nintendo fanboys argue that since these games were developed for Nintendo systems, they should be emulated on the virtual console. This argument has credibility, but the dollar signs in Microsoft's eye are blocking the bleeding hearts of Nintendo fans. Unless they are thinking of buying an xbox on the other hand.

Conker's Bad Fur Day 3DS would be nice.

[ThePerm]

My biggest beaf with this whole issue is that Microsoft drove Rare further into the ground. I mean they were heading that way on their own any way, but if they had stayed with Nintendo they might have turned it around.
 
I mean look at the abismal sales/acceptance of Perfect Dark Zero, Conker: Live and Reloaded and some cases the Perfect Dark remake are signs that Rare only got worse under Microsoft's domain.
 
I just have to wonder what the wii woud be like if Rare and Nintendo never split up?

an alternate universe!
actually this should get some fun put behind it.

but dollar signs have nothing to do with microsoft, its just difficult to help your competition in any way. Although, Nintendo is perfectly content to sell things to Microsoft for the right price. Rare...their Redmond Campus

[Kytim89]

The Golden Eye 007 game is off the table, but Microsoft could release the the other games on VC and then aggressively advertise the XBL versions of the games are much better. What is it to Nintendo? I mean they are making billions on the wii and DS, and soon to be wii 2 and 3DS, to care about what happens to the VC service.
 
My fear of older cartridges running out of supply, as crazy as it might seem, will one day become a reality. The games that are left will become increasingly rare(no pun intended) and expensive. As far as Rare titles go, let's assume that one day N64 games become so hard to find that no one can find any at a reasonable price, I do not want to be dependant on Microsoft to emulate these titles for me. 

[King of Twitch]

Solution: don't sell your Rare games

[Kytim89]

How sweet would it have been if Rare and Nintendo did not have a divorce and they developed for the wii?
 
Battle Toads in SSB Brawl.
 
Perfect Dark Zero for the Gamecube or wii(motion controls?)
 
Banjo Kazooie Threeie or Nuts and Bolts for the wii
 
Conker 2 for the wii
 
Killer Instinct wii
 
All SNES and N64 Rare games on VC
 
Viva Pinata wii