Part Time Gamer: Rare: "We're Long Past the Stage" where Goldeneye Deal is Feasible [Goldeneye]

This is truly sad in the market of selling old games as downloadable content. Nintendo has been pulling in huge profits from it on the Wii and Microsoft saw fit to offer Xbox original games a while ago. GoldenEye was hands down the best game for the N64 once you see through all the Mario fogginess.

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Rare: "We're Long Past the Stage" where Goldeneye Deal is Feasible [Goldeneye]

via Kotaku by Owen Good on 9/20/09

The long, sad tale of bringing the groundbreaking shooter Goldeneye to Nintendo's Virtual Console, or Xbox Live Arcade, appears to have ended long ago, with a whimper.

Addressing a reader question about Goldeneye ever getting an agreement between Nintendo and Microsoft, releasing it to current generation consoles, Rare said, alas, no.

That was some time ago, my friend. Fate was against us that day. Destiny conspired to raise the hurdles even as we attempted to clear them, resulting in unpleasant groinal injury. I suspect we're long past the stage where an agreement was on the cards, but you never know. Stranger things have happened… somewhere … probably.

Dead is how we'd characterize it for now. It's a shame. It'd be a no-brainer moneymaker, but because Nintendo and Microsoft can't figure out who gets paid first, or the most, a re-release of Goldeneye is not meant to be. Not many things were.

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