[Eurogamer] It's been a rough year for Rare but at least Xbox is celebrating its 40th anniversary with... a licensed controller

That's disappointingly bland for $90 US. The images on the dock and controller don't even line up.

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I feel a deep sadness about what happened to Rareware. Nintendo didn't value what they had, and Microsoft never had a clue what to do with it.

Nintendo probably hates the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy they never made a proper remake or a remastered collection, even though it would've made them a fortune today. Miyamoto's probably still bitter that those Western-made games crushed even their top-tier Japanese platformers. They had a freaking gold mine in their hands and tried to recreate it with Retro Studios, but the magic was gone. All they pulled off were Mario-style sidescrolling clones with that awful preschool storybook art style and called it Donkey Kong Country Returns / Tropical Freeze.

Then Microsoft got Rareware, but by then it was already worn out and beaten down by Nintendo. It was like marrying a hot, depressed woman who used to get abused by her ex, but instead of helping her get better, they just made her worse, more depressed, and now she's not even attractive anymore. They couldn't keep any decent talent around and wasted every single classic franchise.

It's pathetic to see them celebrating the studio's anniversary with some generic joystick post when they haven't released anything truly new or exciting in years. Honestly, it probably won't be long before the studio shuts down completely and becomes a sad little museum.
 
ah yes rare creators of

Killer instinct
Dkc trilogy
Golden eye
Banjo kazooie

Basicall snes and n64
Afterwards they made a shitty PVP game
Oh and they didnt make a sequel to killer instinct the game that was amazing on xbox.

Might as well take a wet shit in a box and celebrate your 15 years of being dead.
 
Article says potentially only in the US…

Yeah. Makes sense. Exclude the British market for the British studio when British people love the games with the British sense of humour.
 
Banjo64 said:
Article says potentially only in the US…

Yeah. Makes sense. Exclude the British market for the British studio when British people love the games with the British sense of humour.
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Lol, settle down. It's available worldwide
shop.8bitdo.com

8BitDo Ultimate 3-mode Controller - Rare 40th Anniversary Edition

8Bitdo is a premier 3rd party video game hardware company with a special focus on retro themed game controllers. Renowned for producing the highest quality retro controllers on the market.
shop.8bitdo.com shop.8bitdo.com
 
xanaum said:
I feel a deep sadness about what happened to Rareware. Nintendo didn't value what they had, and Microsoft never had a clue what to do with it.

Nintendo probably hates the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy they never made a proper remake or a remastered collection, even though it would've made them a fortune today. Miyamoto's probably still bitter that those Western-made games crushed even their top-tier Japanese platformers. They had a freaking gold mine in their hands and tried to recreate it with Retro Studios, but the magic was gone. All they pulled off were Mario-style sidescrolling clones with that awful preschool storybook art style and called it Donkey Kong Country Returns / Tropical Freeze.

Then Microsoft got Rareware, but by then it was already worn out and beaten down by Nintendo. It was like marrying a hot, depressed woman who used to get abused by her ex, but instead of helping her get better, they just made her worse, more depressed, and now she's not even attractive anymore. They couldn't keep any decent talent around and wasted every single classic franchise.

It's pathetic to see them celebrating the studio's anniversary with some generic joystick post when they haven't released anything truly new or exciting in years. Honestly, it probably won't be long before the studio shuts down completely and becomes a sad little museum.
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A ton of exaggeration in the post but it is sad what happened to them.
It seems obvious that they needed decent management/control to get the best from them the Nintendo/MS fall off was no coincidence.
I remember them from the ZX Spectrum says, Atic atac, Jetpac etc. and then R.C pro Am on the NES.
I tried a bit of their Pirate thing on Xbox and found it boring and frustrating then dumped it.
I wonder how many of the old crew are left.
 
From one of the very best studios in the industry, to a developer that is so worthless that Ubisoft has a higher chance of releasing something decent. Crazy.
 
Loomy said:
Lol, settle down. It's available worldwide
shop.8bitdo.com

8BitDo Ultimate 3-mode Controller - Rare 40th Anniversary Edition

8Bitdo is a premier 3rd party video game hardware company with a special focus on retro themed game controllers. Renowned for producing the highest quality retro controllers on the market.
shop.8bitdo.com shop.8bitdo.com
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Unless I'm missing something this just links me to the US site with the option to pay in US dollars with international shipping calculated at check out.
 
The controller is downright atrocious.
xanaum said:
It's pathetic to see them celebrating the studio's anniversary with some generic joystick post when they haven't released anything truly new or exciting in years. Honestly, it probably won't be long before the studio shuts down completely and becomes a sad little museum.
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Why would the studio shut down? Sea of Thieves is always packed full of players and they should be working on a sequel.
Spukc said:
ah yes rare creators of

Killer instinct
Dkc trilogy
Golden eye
Banjo kazooie

Basicall snes and n64
Afterwards they made a shitty PVP game
Oh and they didnt make a sequel to killer instinct the game that was amazing on xbox.

Might as well take a wet shit in a box and celebrate your 15 years of being dead.
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You forgot Sea of Thieves. One of the most fun, original games ever.
 
Banjo64 said:
Unless I'm missing something this just links me to the US site with the option to pay in US dollars with international shipping calculated at check out.
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That seems to be the only global option for now. Maybe it'll show up on their UK Amazon store at some point. but all 8bitdo controllers ship from China anyways.
 
I'd rather buy an 8bitdo controller than an official one. I don't particularly care for this design but I have no doubts about the quality.
 
UltimaKilo said:
The controller is downright atrocious.

Why would the studio shut down? Sea of Thieves is always packed full of players and they should be working on a sequel.

You forgot Sea of Thieves. One of the most fun, original games ever.
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Despite the trainwreck it was at launch, a lot of people still play Sea of Thieves, which, sorry, but to me is complete crap. Especially when you look at it now as the main face of a studio that used to be the most iconic and badass in the West. Right now they just had a game canceled, the studio went through layoffs, and they can't even manage their own IPs like Killer Instinct and Perfect Dark.

And even though I hope it's just a rumor, it's honestly depressing to think Rare's next project might be Sea of Thieves 2. Feels like they're barely hanging on.
 
calistan said:
It's not a proper Microsoft one, it's a third-party effort. Rare wasn't even deemed worthy of an official special edition controller!
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Its a better controller - but also very weird that MS are partnering with a 3rd party for a themed controller.
 
Doesn't look that bad, but commemoration for what exactly? The only thing happening there is mass layoffs.
 
poppabk said:
Its a better controller - but also very weird that MS are partnering with a 3rd party for a themed controller.
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I'm not a fan of it myself, I much prefer the official design.

Still, I know 8bitdo is a lot better than the old days of shitty cheap third-party controllers you'd force your friends or kid brother to use in multiplayer sessions.
 
UltimaKilo said:
The controller is downright atrocious.

Why would the studio shut down? Sea of Thieves is always packed full of players and they should be working on a sequel.

You forgot Sea of Thieves. One of the most fun, original games ever.
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Yes one of the most unfun pieces of excrement
 
Very weird that Microsoft aren't the ones putting out this controller themselves. They very recently did a special edition controller for the Witcher 3, which isn't from one of their devs.
 
Spukc said:
Yes one of the most unfun pieces of excrement
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I don't get that sentiment. Tucking on ships and open world PVP with a good group is the most fun I have had on an online game since SOCOM. Few things beat sneaking up on a group of kids working on a fort and blowing up their ship with a gunpowder barrel and then killing them.
 
Got to be some siloed off group who handles gamepads, but MS spends way too much time on stuff like custom gamepads and any meme-ish stuff like fridges and whatever.
 
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