I wouldnt call those games remakes, the lack of any great modifications put them in the "ports" section. And then you got all those "casuals" and "newbies" playing joust, a game thats even older than me. In fact I think MS already knows, since Live Arcade lets you play classics against other players and such, too bad is all from before the famicom era. I'm sure SEGA will play both sides, offering their SMS and Genesis games for both X360 and Revo. And no, unless Iwata gets a stroke or something I clearly doubt nintendo would let MS use their games.
I doubt MS would give a shit for banjo and others, maybe for conker and PD since those went to the Xbox
Nintendo properties (So DK 64, Diddy Kong racing) should be available. Others, such as banjo, conker, Perfect dark etc. are much less likely but still possible.
I've been wondering about this, too. Is it possible that Nintendo in some way controls the rights to re-releasing games that were released for their systems. Could that have been part of the license? The original announcement that I read about the Mega Drive and PC Engine deal did mention 1000 games, which would make you think that it's not just Sega and/or Hudson games. But that number may have just been an assumption based on how many ROMs for those systems the article's writer has on his hard drive, I don't know. To be honest, even if it was only Nintendo, Sega, Hudson and one or two other company's games, I'd be pretty happy as long as it was *ALL* of their games. I'm more worried that there won't be much selection even from the companies that participate. Someone always owns the copyright and in thre case of a company that's gone out business and sold off all their property, that person is a copyright scavenger who would most likely be pleased as punch to license the game for $0.03 per download or something like that. Casual gamers love the classic games they played when they were growing up. Friends of mine always want to play stuff like Contra and Excitebike when they're at my house. That's why those Famiclone controller things sell so well. Girls especially seem to have some sort thing for casual retro gaming. Anyway, my wish for this Nintendo Virtual Console thing is that we might see some arcade original versions. Mike Tyson's Punchout? What about the real Punch-Out! The Genesis version of Golden Axe? C'mon. Bonk's Revenge? Give me Bonk's Adventure Arcade. That would be super sweet, even if it was only a handful of games. ...word is bondage...
Rare owns Donkey Kong... If you look at the credits for games like smash brothers, you'll see that nintendo had to liscense the character from Rare. How nintendo lost the liscense, i've never been sure. EDIT: This post is wrong... don't listen to me.
Those were contrated work which Nintendo published as first party titles. Ergo, the rights hsould be in Nintendo's hands. -hl718
I'm sure just the newer CGI one, but damn, thats nuts if true. So the Donkey Konga games, rare gets a cut? What about the most recent Donkey Kong on GBA?
"Nintendo are hardly going to let us make games starring DK for the Xbox, are they? It's not as if we ever expected them to." - Quote from rares official site, scribs section. edit: Also - http://money.cnn.com/2002/09/20/news/deals/rare/index.htm
From what i can tell, rare and nintendo had a joint liscense on DK (???). Apparently nintendo had to buy back part of the rights to the dk franchise. Nintendo owned DK himself while rare owned some of the supporting cast. EDIT: This page from nintendo's site confirms that they are the sole copyright holder for DK: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html Guess i was wrong above. EDIT AGAIN: and here's a page from rare's own site regarding their liscenses http://www.rareware.com/extra/scribes/10jan03/index.html
