Rare no longer a Kinect-only studio, 'assessing' classic franchises

[Walecs]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/n...ranchises.html

Kinect's a great piece of hardware and what we've done with Kinect Sports Rivals [is] we've pushed it beyond what the original Kinect can do

We very much see Microsoft as a multiplatform studio and a multi device studio. For us, it's about what's the right experience for the right device and the right platform.

Obviously something like Kinect Sports Rivals is intrinsically linked with Kinect - you couldn't have that game or experience without Kinect.

For us it's, 'Let's pick the right creative idea and the right game to go and build', and is Kinect the right input for that? Or is it controller, or is it SmartGlass or PC-based or touch?

Microsoft now has an ecosystem of devices, and we're a devices and services company.

What is pretty common is Xbox Live and cloud is in Microsoft's DNA, so that's something very easily we can leverage like we have with sending Champions to the cloud.

What the input device is and what the gameplay device is ultimately depends on what game we're building, so we will pick the right input and device support for the right game.

Rare's got a great portfolio of IP and we always look back at it and we always look at assessing it, in the same way as assessing the new ideas we have as well.
I think what I'd say on that, it's back to what I said about platforms - it's got to be the right idea, for the right opportunity, for the right industry trend, or what we want to go and look at reshaping or refocusing our game or our industry towards doing.
The notion that there's a game that came out ten years ago and we're just going to remake the game again in HD, we won't go and throw the studio at that.

If it's an old IP for a new idea we had that we can show on a new platform in an interesting way, then of course we go look at it.
Then you're asking the question of, 'Should this be a new IP or should this be something we already own in our own portfolio?' They're the kind of decisions and discussions we have pretty regularly, actually.

Rare's interesting because it has different fans at different generations; an 11-year-old Rare fan is very different to a 35-year-old Rare fan, and there's various levels in-between.

For us, it's great when people ask, and we enjoy reading those kinds of comments, it's just really about where do we think the industry is going, and if we're going to work on a game for a year, or two years, or three years, what's the right game for the right idea for the right IP for that?

Rather than going, 'Hey, I loved playing GoldenEye, we should make a multiplayer shooter because that's what I love playing'. We've got to be a little more future thinking with that.

[TheGreatNi]

Praise the lord, hallelujah!
My hear sings with joy!

[The Banjonator]

Eh, no reason for me to get excited when they haven't said anything about specific games they'll be making. I hope they pull through for once.

[Breegullbeak]

So now I'll sit back and wait for the Viva Pinata Themed Xbox One bundled with the awesome sequel that uses Kinect well alongside the controller.

[ShadowLink]

Victory Screech! LOOLOOLOOLOOLOOLOOLOOLOOLOOLOOLOOLOO!!!!!!!!

I'm not getting my hopes up.

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Jackjack71

I'm not getting my hopes up.

This. And the rest of you should know better by now, as well.

[TheGreatNi]

Originally Posted by Derek

This. And the rest of you should know better by now, as well.

This whole time I've been seething over a Kinect Banjo game.
Now it no longer sounds like an option.

A bear-and-bird game at all is always welcome in my book

[qwertykins76]

Great. Maybe we'll get Banjo 3 before Half-life 3 comes out.

[Andre]

We here at Rare are proud to announce a brand new Banjo...








...Trading card game.

[JazzPanther]

I'll just attempt to remain optimistic and hope that they do a proper BK this time with none of those awful beady eyes. They look too...normal.

[DementedSun]

Banjo Kazooie no Daibouken.

[Breegullbeak]

Originally Posted by Andre

We here at Rare a proud to announce a brand new Banjo...








...Trading card game.

And it has nothing to do with Banjo Kazooie. It's literally a battle card game about Banjos where every card is a picture of a Banjo.

[Ty-chan]

MMMMMMM****ING IM GONNA LOSE MY SHIT HOLY **** YES...

Okay self, calm down. Don't get those hopes up..... MMMMMBUT **** I WANT TO CELEBRATE...

Just breath Jigs....

**** I WANNA **** A BAGEL!!!

CALM YOUR ****ING TITS JIGGIES!

**** YOU GOLDEN, GO DIE YOU PIECE OF SHIT! IN A WHOLE BY THE WAY, DIE IN A WHOLE!

OH WELL AREN'T WE THE ASSHAT! **** YOU! I'M LEAVING!

NO **** YOU! I'M LEAVING!

*two doors slam shut*

[TheGreatNi]

Originally Posted by Breegullbeak

And it has nothing to do with Banjo Kazooie. It's literally a battle card game about Banjos where every card is a picture of a Banjo.

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