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well here is another point tho... look at some of the other bong games they have tried to make.. i mean not one other bond game surpassed goldeneye... except maybe the new one? i dunno.. but like it has potential to do really really well. cuz the other bond games people were looking to be similar and better werent up to parsm0k3dinYAfac5
Regardless of being potentially good it is impossible to be made because the rights to the game are spread among too many companies for it to ever happen. Only way for GoldenEye to resurface is pretty much what Activision has already done, make a game and slap on the GoldenEye namesake, they did it because nothing else could be done and at least the name would help it sell but it sucked.
Besides no company in their right mind would pay to develop a remake a of 10 year old game based on an almost 15 year old movie. A reissue was the only proper chance the game had but licensing and greed beat that chance out.
[QUOTE="Ket87"]I agree with the first thing that you said but the second not so much. Because MS could just as easily stop their whining and let Nintendo do what they will with the game that they had a large role in its creation. But then there is also Activision who owns the Bond license so that is another problem. MS isn't a victim here.If goldeneye was remade entirely up to todays standards it would suck, what made goldeneye fun was its uniqueness and freshness it had on the N64 which would be totally lost translating it into this era of shooters. It would be bland and uninteresting compared to other titles.
I wish Microsoft and Nintendo would have been able to settle the ownership rights dispute over the original so it could have been re-released digitally on modern consoles but nope the big N had to cry about it.
Sepewrath
Yeah but it wasn't Nintendo who was trying to bring the game back it was Microsoft/Rare who were trying to release it on the Arcade, Activision can't say jack regardless of owning the Bond license because Rare developed the game before Activision bought the rights thus GoldenEye64 is Rare's intellectual property not Activision, but because Nintendo funded the game Rare ca't do anything with because they are owned by Microsoft. Nintendo had no plans to put the game on virtual console but Rare was 2 or 3 months away from completing a XBLA release of the game before Nintendo took legal action. It is Nintendo's fault the game never was rereleased not Activisions.
If goldeneye was remade entirely up to todays standards it would suck, what made goldeneye fun was its uniqueness and freshness it had on the N64 which would be totally lost translating it into this era of shooters. It would be bland and uninteresting compared to other titles.
I wish Microsoft and Nintendo would have been able to settle the ownership rights dispute over the original so it could have been re-released digitally on modern consoles but nope the big N had to cry about it.
Digital distribution will grow but I doubt it will ever take over unless all the competing companies out there put their differences aside and a uniform system is put in place. Why buy a movie and not have a disc and only be able to watch it on my PS3, or on my 360, or on my PC. With several different accounts for services which may not be around 5-10 years from now so eventually that thing that I bought will be gone.
Blu-Ray is the next format for both gaming and video like it or not. it took DVDs a very long time to catch on and Blu-Ray is already more popular than DVD was at this point in its lifespan mostly thanks to the early bump from PS3. Now movies and players are lowering to what DVD was only a few years ago and the steady rise in HD-TV use will only keep it growing too untill it eventually takes over DVD regardless of TV definition. This is a ways away but its obvious from its capabilities it will be the standard for gaming and will likely be in use for both Sony's and Microsoft's next console, Nintendo is iffy because they tend to do their own thing regardless of going against industry trends in the case of N64 and GC which definitely hurt them.
Blu-Ray is not doing anywhere near DVD at this point because the reasons are obvious and do not include digital distribution at all. Simply HD-TVs are not the norm quite yet, in a few years once their pricing becomes reasonable. Also DVD has been out for a decade now, people have massive DVD collections, I stopped counting at 200 myself. Its a bit difficult to discard an investment like that and start picking up something new, again it takes time and the industry itself will have to draw the line like they did with VHS and simply discontinue the format and force the switch.
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