Who owns Killer Instinct

I thought Rare owned the right to KI...But after reading this old interview I am not so sure

If Rare is still working on some Nintendo ports that are actually Nintendo properties, does that mean you can still revisit those series, like Donkey Kong Country, or Killer Instinct?

JT: Nintendo like us to do the ports of the games that we did for them for their format.

We've done the Donkey Kong Country remakes because [Rare] was the home of it. Nintendo have asked us to do those. I think there's still a really good relationship between Rare and Nintendo. Yeah, we get on really well.

That kind of thing doesn't happen very often.

JC: No, I think it's unique to the fact that Microsoft aren't planning on releasing a handheld, so there's no conflict of interest there. I think the management is still friends with people at Nintendo -- like Ken Lobb went over [to Microsoft] as well, so there's still connections between the two businesses.

I mentioned Killer Instinct -- a lot of people are hoping that you guys are going to do that again. I thought it would be very difficult since you're Microsoft-owned, but if you do have that relationship, then on the handheld page...

JT: The thing is, when we were working with Nintendo, there were some properties that were ours -- and are ours, furthermore. Banjo is a great example. Banjo is all ours, although potentially Nintendo could release the old games for the Virtual Console on the Wii. Any future ventures would be from Rare on whatever format we're working on. It's a pretty even split. Obviously they didn't give us Donkey Kong. I don't know why. (laughs)

it depends on who had the idea of making the game or if nintendo bought the rights from Rare, its pretty much the same thing thats happening now, who owns Halo franchise now? M$ or Bungie?Mizarus

That we know M$ already said that they own the rights to Halo

[QUOTE="Mizarus"]it depends on who had the idea of making the game or if nintendo bought the rights from Rare, its pretty much the same thing thats happening now, who owns Halo franchise now? M$ or Bungie?HarlockJC

That we know M$ already said that they own the rights to Halo

reading through the interview again, it seems to me that microsoft dont allow Rare to have its own projects, when nintendo did, they even use Banjo as an exemple but since the game is coming out iam probly mistaken, it could also be that KillerInstinct is indeed a nintendo project, and rare only developed it.

[QUOTE="HarlockJC"]

[QUOTE="Mizarus"]it depends on who had the idea of making the game or if nintendo bought the rights from Rare, its pretty much the same thing thats happening now, who owns Halo franchise now? M$ or Bungie?Mizarus

That we know M$ already said that they own the rights to Halo

reading through the interview again, it seems to me that microsoft dont allow Rare to have its own projects, when nintendo did, they even use Banjo as an exemple but since the game is coming out iam probly mistaken, it could also be that KillerInstinct is indeed a nintendo project, and rare only developed it.

Which kinda sinks Nintendo likes to forget about some of their IP's. Where if Rare owned KI then we may see another one.

[QUOTE="Mizarus"][QUOTE="HarlockJC"]

[QUOTE="Mizarus"]it depends on who had the idea of making the game or if nintendo bought the rights from Rare, its pretty much the same thing thats happening now, who owns Halo franchise now? M$ or Bungie?HarlockJC

That we know M$ already said that they own the rights to Halo

reading through the interview again, it seems to me that microsoft dont allow Rare to have its own projects, when nintendo did, they even use Banjo as an exemple but since the game is coming out iam probly mistaken, it could also be that KillerInstinct is indeed a nintendo project, and rare only developed it.

Which kinda sinks Nintendo likes to forget about some of their IP's. Where if Rare owned KI then we may see another one.

nintendo probly knows that they cant satisfy the fans of the series by developing the games themselfs, or if its the second case M$ isnt allowing Rare to develop games at their will or only letting rare develop games that they have bought the rights, either way it sucks for those whom loved the series.

but with StreetFighter 4 in development i really dont care much about a KI sequel =p

nintendo probly knows that they cant satisfy the fans of the series by developing the games themselfs, or if its the second case M$ isnt allowing Rare to develop games at their will or only letting rare develop games that they have bought the rights, either way it sucks for those whom loved the series.

but with StreetFighter 4 in development i really dont care much about a KI sequel =p

Mizarus

I was not a huge fan of SF3, I like the Alphas better. I really enjoied KI and would at least like to play KI2 onlinebut I would rather have a new one.

bu ... bu... bu i want a new killer instinct :cry:R4gn4r0k

me too but if what I understand from this is right the chances are almost none....I just don't see Nintendo going back and making a new one. Now that the fighting game age is over.