I don't quite see why they couldn't just release this but change all the music/names to get rid of the Bond license. It's not like the game would play different if you weren't 007.
....perfect dark?
Better is still different.
This story stank when it first came out and stinks even worse with repeating. Nintendo has no legal recourse to stop the game, but did somehow anyways? Ok...
I guess Nintendo owns the game since they published it, and they own the code in the game or something.
I heard more specifics of it years back on some nerdy rare forum. I forget the specifics, but they do have legal rights of some variety over the game.
But they made Perfect Dark to basically put out a sequel after losing the bond license. I'd love to see PD on 360 about as much as I'd love to see Goldeneye.
Naw, Nintendo doesn't own anything as far as Goldeneye.
This is no hoax. This is no fan-made ROM hack, PC Source mod or Photoshop fake. This is no joke, and contrary to the date on the cover, this is no April Fool either. This is the Nintendo 64's GoldenEye running on the Xbox 360, made by Rare, published by 007 license holders Activision and released over Live Arcade by Microsoft - and it's the best game you'll never play.
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GoldenEye was set for release in the middle of this year, until it was cancelled late in 2007, apparently at the behest of Nintendo. As Oddjaw tells it, Nintendo America boss Reggie Fils-Aime was supposedly completely behind the idea, knowing well what the project would mean to gamers, especially when the deal was sweetened by Rare's offer to port the game to Wii, while making the rest of their back catalogue available on the Virtual Console.
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The agreement between the parties allowed the game to be developed almost to completion before Nintendo's Japanese boss Satoru Iwata decided that under absolutely no circumstances would Nintendo allow the game to see release on another platform. While Ninty apparently have neither rights to the code nor any legal means to block the release, it's rumoured that the threat to Activision's relationship with Nintendo was enough for them to disband the project.
I can't believe it. It's too good and too sour to swallow.
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edited March 2008
To be honest, I'd rather Rare spend time fixing the Perfect Dark series from it's Zero mess or releasing Banjo Three. Theres also room for where Conkor left off.
To be honest, I'd rather Rare spend time fixing the Perfect Dark series from it's Zero mess or releasing Banjo Three. Theres also room for where Conkor left off.
Expect to see this on Xbox 1080 Xenon 5 Billion, because Rare moves too god damned slow for it's own good.
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Naw, Nintendo doesn't own anything as far as Goldeneye.
edit: And Nintendo, too.
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Expect to see this on Xbox 1080 Xenon 5 Billion, because Rare moves too god damned slow for it's own good.
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