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Microsoft Buys Rare
Phwoar writes "Microsoft have announced their buyout of the games developer Rare. After a $375 million payoff Rare will now produce games solely for the Xbox. After Rare's recent releases for the Nintendo systems bombed, Nintendo decided to sell their 49% stake in the company last week rather than buy the company themselves.
Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement." You might be reminded of Microsoft's purchase of Bungie a few years ago.
Will we get Donkey Kong office assistants now?
Yippie. Now Steve Balmer won't be the only large, hairy monkey to hold an Xbox controller.
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"rare" is a French word that means "scarce".
Am I the only person who read that as "Microsoft Bugs Rare"?
More proof that speed-reading CAN cause heart attacks. Or (insert soft drink of choice) to be spit all over the monitor, at any gate.
It will be "rare" to have games from them that are "well done"!
Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"
Slashdot: "Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement."
Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"
Slashdot: "Google News has a nice collection of links to articles regarding the announcement."
Google News: "Microsoft Buys Rare - Slashdot - 11 minutes ago"
Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
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Anyway, Rare doesn't have as much of a pedigree as Microsoft probably thinks it does. I'm betting most people associate Perfect Dark, Donkey Kong, etc more with Nintendo than Rare. They are going to have to shout from the makers of perfect dark on any future commercial advertising Xbox titles by Rare if they expect anyone to care, or even notice...
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
...looks like game companies aren't all that Microsoft has been able to buy.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Now Microsoft will be able to say what we already knew: "If it's good and it's Microsoft, it's gotta be Rare!"
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
1) Microsoft buys Rare
2) Makes Games
3) Profits.
4) Slashdotters get pissed because the question mark is missing.
5) Microsoft loses $200 per box x 10,000 boxes.
6) Bankruptcy!
"You're never ready, just less unprepared."
It amuses me when stupefyinly large purchases are made of software dev houses.
You can't Buy the TALENT!!! The talent flees! Even with golden handcuffs and stock options most flee like hell and create other startups or go contractor.
The companies languish. Halo took eternity to ship. Still is 3 years late for mac system! It was demoed in 1999.
Its hilarious.
The "visionaries" "art directors" "designers" all have locks of stock as do the vps, but the core grunt talent-gods do not... and they flee.
then the companies churn through "Directors of Technology" one per year like clockwork as they flounder.
ALL GOOD GAMES are made by high IQ people with a knack for talent at game coding and these quirky guys are rarely compensxated correctly or despise golden handcuffs and shackles... many of which do not AUTO-VEST if the companies are sold!
The idiotic firms think lack of auto-vesting options will keep their talented prima-donnas.... WRONG!!!!!! They do not do everyting in life for money.
They get the hell out and fast.
Then the companies imploded.
Companies REFUSE to give proper respect and rewards to the most vital talent, primarily from IQ envy, or agism against youth.
Its the "peter principle" incarnate.
I have kissed off millions of dollars a few times in my life. And i dont give a rip. I laugh at the dead companies I once worked for. All dead dead dead!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (and their stock worthless to the very end).
I thought it read "Microsoft Buys Rare Sofa". Just the thought of Lazy-Boy XP makes me shudder.
Microsoft is playing Pokemon with developers... gotta collect them all!
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