Rare working on two unannounced projects
Microsoft’s Shane Kim spills the beans on their secret plans
Shane Kim has been talking a lot recently. First with 1UP and then with GameInformer. Perhaps as a result of Microsoft’s decision of throwing themselves overboard after hushing up all the information regarding 2008 games during this last E3, only to end up helping out Sony’s PS3 holiday season campaign by announcing that there won’t be any X Event this year. Which might mean nothing new about Xbox 360 until who knows when.
Kim decided to defy this indisputable logic of non-advertising-in-order-to-sell revealing that Rare is working on two new unannounced games besides the highly-anticipated Banjo 3. Sadly enough, that’s the end of the news here. After that, he just confirmed how little he knows about his own company’s marketing strategies rather than offering real deals.
“Rare is very busy, they’re working on Banjo and a couple of unannounced projects, as well” said Kim to 1UP. He also mentioned that Krome Studios is the developer behind the new Viva Piñata: Party Animals, in case anybody didn’t noticed yet: “If Rare had come to us before and said “look, we really want to do a party game with Viva Piñata,” great, but they’re also working on some other things we care a lot about, too.”
Most of what GameInformer published was flattery, tough. Kim told yet again how pleased they are in Microsoft with Rare despite the low sales of some of their greatest titles. “We have never owned Rare at a point in any console’s life cycle where I think they’re really teed up for success,” said Kim. “Perfect Dark Zero has done very well for us from a financial standpoint. But when you talk about Kameo and Viva Piñata, what third party would launch new IP like that that early in the life cycle at the price points that consoles were at?,” he added.
The guys at GameInformer, noticing the little sense that final statement was making, reminded Kim that both Kameo and PDZ were originally Xbox projects (heck, they were even GameCube projects at some point) and therefore they were supposed to be finished for the launch of the console anyway.
However, all this unexciting jibber jabber included one episode so memorable that we are going to share it with everybody even considering that has nothing to do with Rare. Realizing that Microsoft actually didn’t present anything new in Santa Monica and that there wasn’t really anything tangible to talk about for the coming year, Kim proudly announced the very good-looking Resident Evil 5 for Xbox 360… it’s a shame we all knew about that more than a year ago. And even funnier it’s the fact that according to the latest Famitsu issue the game was pushed back and scheduled for… 2009.
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