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[ElSiberianHusky]

Yes, I "borrowed" it from the RWP, big deal.

Originally Posted by BanjoPL

From recent Mini-Scribes:

Q: Dear Rare,
I know, I know, it’s COMPLETELY WEIRD that one of the fans for your older game series would write you, but where is the future headed for them? Banjo and Kazooie, Conker, even the generic characters from Diddy Kong Racing. Will they fade into obscurity? You can always throw them to Retro Studios. Just an idea.
Swifty

Rare: SO WEIRD. Nothing’s ruled out, Taylor (assuming it is you and not 18th century author Jonathan Swift) – we’re not making a stand against 27 years of Rare heritage. We’ve devoted time to Kinect Sports as it’s been our greatest success in years, and several million people are playing the heck out of those games just as you did with Banjo and Conker. Doesn’t mean we’ll never do anything else ever again. There’s love for every franchise both within and beyond Rare, but it’s all about opportunities and when to jump on them. The games marketplace is a vast, gnashing beast and nothing’s ever guaranteed (apart from melodrama).

[Guitar]

I know two things:
One. They finally tell us upfront that they focus on Kinect pretty much for the money.
Two: They've told us that the other franchises are not dead.

So I guess that's okay.

[Coey890]

All about opportunities and when to jump on them?

What ever happened to making a game about a pinata filled garden out of the blue? Taking risks was what Rare used to do, but now they just follow along with the current trends and stuff like that. That doesn't seem that "Rare" to me, seems more like a common company.

Even with KS, can't they just include the classic rare characters as mascots and change the names so they're similar to the mascots already in the game?

Mr. Pants = Freaky Fellow
Banjo = Backpacker Bear
Conker = Super Squirrel
.etc

Like I said, just make mascots with names like those and make them the good old Rare characters.

[Coey890]

EDIT: Accidental double post. CURSE YOU CRAPPY INTERNET!

[Angry Ancestor]

This is good to hear, but I pretty much knew this.

[GameMasterGuy]

Not really anything new. Rare threw away Saberman and Jetpac in the NES era, anything besides Battletoads in the SNES era, and pretty much everything but Banjo from XB era onwards. Bringing Jetpac back for one last game was the one exception to their "abandon old series and never return" rule.

[Skill]

You forgot Conker went for 64 to xbox.

This is good to hear though, overall good.

[KarrunaNiara]

Originally Posted by Guitar

I know two things:
One. They finally tell us upfront that they focus on Kinect pretty much for the money.
Two: They've told us that the other franchises are not dead.

So I guess that's okay.

Eh, I can deal with this. =v=

[GameMasterGuy]

Originally Posted by Skill

You forgot Conker went for 64 to xbox.

This is good to hear though, overall good.

I'm only counting sequels, not remakes.

[BottlesTheLOL]

A: Reasons unspecified: we can’t possibly create every sequel and remake and XBLA port that people bawl at us to make on a daily basis, and when it comes down to it, Kinect Sports has proven more popular than anything else we’ve done in recent years. So while we never rule out returning to action-adventure or any other genre, we also have to a) be able to afford junkfood and alcopops and b) satisfy an active audience of more than three million people who now know Rare best for Kinect Sports.
Many ideas were (and continue to be) tossed around for Sports mascots; the inevitable consensus was that the audience for this franchise is different enough to find a load of old-school Rare references bewildering rather than encouraging. Especially if one of them was Mr. Pants, which I would make damn sure it was.

Anyone notice that one on the website?

[Lockdown738]

This is somewhat relieving. At the very least, it's good to know that they haven't completely forgotten about Banjo and Conker.