...in a stunning display of hubris.
Source: NeoGAF, who sourced a print gaming mag, so it's no hoax or rumor. There's also a picture of the high def remake floating around the internet.This is no hoax. This is no fan-made ROM hack, PC Source mod or Photoshop fake. This is no joke, and contrary to the date on the cover, this is no April Fool either. This is the Nintendo 64's GoldenEye running on the Xbox 360, made by Rare, published by 007 license holders Activision and released over Live Arcade by Microsoft - and it's the best game you'll never play.
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GoldenEye was set for release in the middle of this year, until it was cancelled late in 2007, apparently at the behest of Nintendo. As Oddjaw tells it, Nintendo America boss Reggie Fils-Aime was supposedly completely behind the idea, knowing well what the project would mean to gamers, especially when the deal was sweetened by Rare's offer to port the game to Wii, while making the rest of their back catalogue available on the Virtual Console.
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The agreement between the parties allowed the game to be developed almost to completion before Nintendo's Japanese boss Satoru Iwata decided that under absolutely no circumstances would Nintendo allow the game to see release on another platform. While Ninty apparently have neither rights to the code nor any legal means to block the release, it's rumoured that the threat to Activision's relationship with Nintendo was enough for them to disband the project.
Congratulations Nintendo. You simultaneously dicked over any chance of Goldeneye getting a decent modern remake and any chance of seeing any of Rare's N64 releaseson the Virtual Console, which is kind of a big deal since they were basically half the reason anyone bought an N64 anyway.
So much for Nintendo being a nice friendly company, and made me kind of glad I sold my Wii.
Also, in before massive amounts of "I never really liked Rare's games anyway" backpedaling.
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