They were my best video game of all time! I loved their games and thought they was amazing! Everyone says they are dead. They made my best game of all time! I hope they are on life support not dead! What if there's a lil bit of the same magic in the air when they released DKC. What if they can hit that place one more time. I hope they can have one more good last run with the new Xbox!
Will Rare ever make a come back or a video game that is good again?
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Having a lot of sales says nothing of something's quality.
Controversy creates cash Rare had controversy with Nintendo. And it worked
Rare has never shipped a game that has stoked much in the way of controversy. The game you're probably thinking of is Conker's Bad Fur Day, but that didn't really get the censorious types riled up since it hit years after mature content was old hat on every other system. Its also worth nothing that Conker's Bad Fur Day was an abysmal failure from a commercial perspective, selling only 50K units.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/11/09/the-final-days-of-the-n64?page=2
Conker totally bombed. See, the reasoning behind its adult-oriented tone may have been sound from a certain perspective, but that "Mature" audience just wasn't around any more on the N64 by March 2001. The 2000 holiday season had been a success, but after PS2 hardware shortages started going away, so did many of Nintendo's players.
And Nintendo didn't really help themselves with marketing the title, either. See, I said the company was going all-out in the adult direction -- but, having had no experience with pursuing that audience, it shot itself in the foot a few times trying to do it. The biggest missed opportunity had to be with Nintendo Power magazine, the company's official monthly print publication, which outright refused to cover Conker in any way. Though it was the biggest release of the year for the N64 and Internet coverage abounded, NP magazine behaved as if the title simply didn't exist.
When all was said and done, Conker's Bad Fur Day sold only about 50,000 copies. Bad Fur Day indeed.
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Having a lot of sales says nothing of something's quality.
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Controversy creates cash Rare had controversy with Nintendo. And it worked
Rare has never shipped a game that has stoked much in the way of controversy. The game you're probably thinking of is Conker's Bad Fur Day, but that didn't really get the censorious types riled up since it hit years after mature content was old hat on every other system. Its also worth nothing that Conker's Bad Fur Day was an abysmal failure from a commercial perspective, selling only 50K units.
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http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/11/09/the-final-days-of-the-n64?page=2
Conker totally bombed. See, the reasoning behind its adult-oriented tone may have been sound from a certain perspective, but that "Mature" audience just wasn't around any more on the N64 by March 2001. The 2000 holiday season had been a success, but after PS2 hardware shortages started going away, so did many of Nintendo's players.
And Nintendo didn't really help themselves with marketing the title, either. See, I said the company was going all-out in the adult direction -- but, having had no experience with pursuing that audience, it shot itself in the foot a few times trying to do it. The biggest missed opportunity had to be with Nintendo Power magazine, the company's official monthly print publication, which outright refused to cover Conker in any way. Though it was the biggest release of the year for the N64 and Internet coverage abounded, NP magazine behaved as if the title simply didn't exist.
When all was said and done, Conker's Bad Fur Day sold only about 50,000 copies. Bad Fur Day indeed.
it was a hit years later, and nintendo got mad with them putting " he's one hell of a guy." in DK64!
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