Rare Question

There is one thing i dont understand about the rare/microsoft deal, If rare are owned by microsoft, then how come they developed diddy kong racing DS.

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There is one thing i dont understand about the rare/microsoft deal, If rare are owned by microsoft, then how come they developed diddy kong racing DS.

mattyftm

Because Donkey Kong is an Nintendo trademark, Rare DOSEN'T own this. So when Donkey kong Country came about maybe Rare and Nintendo made a deal that they had to develop the game with Donkey Kon from then on.

By the way the DS version of AOE was not Developed or Published by MS just given the rights to do so

rare had nothing to do with the remake of diddy kong racing ds, all of rare owned characters were taking out of diddy kong ds.etbny22

When the deal went down Nintendo got the character rights for Donkey Kong and Star Fox bradglimpse

Wha??? Really? That seems very un-nintendo...

We also remember Matt on IGN saying he played a Alpha or Beta version of HALO CE for the DS. Obviously, MS sees the DS as an option for tapping into the handheld market without actually having to compete with Nintendo's hardware. I'd like to see that Halo game... couldve been cool.