I'll let this slide. Despite how much I vehemently disagree with it.
I will just say that many businesses do such tactic. I wouldn't even be surprised if Nintendo did it once upon a time. To sell your products you need to advertise it. Advertising in general costs money. All MS did with Machinima was go an extra step in that.
This however has factual error to it.
Nintendo owned 49% of Rare. Microsoft bought it from Nintendo, along with the rest of Rare. For 375 million bucks. That is quite a hefty sum. Nintendo willingly sold their share of the company to them, basically.
Rare also still made games on the GBA after this, because MS wasn't in the handheld console department. They also released a Conker game on the Xbox along with other games. They even released a Banjo-Kazooie game in 2008.
The thing is. The games didn't sell all that well. And because of that they restructured the studio. Now Rare focuses on Kinect games.
That's all fine and dandy. Until your interpretations have factual errors from the facts.
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okay I'm just going to fragment this
"I will just say that many businesses do such tactic. I wouldn't even be surprised if Nintendo did it once upon a time. To sell your products you need to advertise it. Advertising in general costs money. All MS did with Machinima was go an extra step in that."
The part about advertisement is ok also the fact that it costs money it's ok (can't say it's false seeing how the wiiu isn't advertised as the wii). The only part that seems "annoying" to me is the way you do it. I can't hate microsoft JUST for that but it is something I have to consider. Consider this as a personal concern not an opinion changer.
"Nintendo owned 49% of Rare. Microsoft bought it from Nintendo, along with the rest of Rare. For 375 million bucks. That is quite a hefty sum. Nintendo willingly sold their share of the company to them, basically."
Fine with this it's like buying a product you get for what you paid the problem isn't the buyout itself.
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Rare also still made games on the GBA after this, because MS wasn't in the handheld console department. They also released a Conker game on the Xbox along with other games. They even released a Banjo-Kazooie game in 2008.
The thing is. The games didn't sell all that well. And because of that they restructured the studio. Now Rare focuses on Kinect games."
This however, is the problem I have. Rare used to be a studio that took risk to innovate and it worked but microsoft doesn't share this way of thinking. This is why the banjo-kazzoie game doesn't follow the series because microsoft didn't want to risk with a platformer. But, what is annoying is that they restricted rare while they bought it and don't respect their way of making games. I think that some people at rare felt so restricted that they quit their job. This is sad considering what would have been made if they were still relevant.