Rumor: Microsoft Considering Name Change For Rare

[Vipsoccermaster]

This comes from Nintex_nl over at N1ntendo.nl...

Funny that you mention Rare, just got word that MS is thinking about a name change for the studio due next year.

With RARE not really the same company they were during the Nintendo days, maybe it is time to just let the name go. It's best to remember RARE for what they did, not the shell that they are now.

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Basically, there may have be word on street that Microsoft is considering changing the name for Rare in 2013. If it does, then Rare will no longer be the name, and it's unknown what the new name is if they change.

I think they should consider changing the name as that Rare is not like what it was before the switch. Rare is no longer good in my opinion, as it's been completely different.

 

[H-J Kaabii]

Would it be safe to assume that even if the name is change Microsoft keep the intellectual rights to the name?

Then again Rare in its golden days was Rareware so I suppose there could be some loophole to bring members of the original team together and use the name.

...nah, doubt it. But it's all in the name of progressing... not that it matters to me since I don't play Rare's games today

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Would it be safe to assume that even if the name is change Microsoft keep the intellectual rights to the name?

Then again Rare in its golden days was Rareware so I suppose there could be some loophole to bring members of the original team together and use the name.

...nah, doubt it. But it's all in the name of progressing... not that it matters to me since I don't play Rare's games today

Probably, as Microsoft were the ones that bought them out. They're under Microsoft's property. And I don't play Rare's games today, either. All that charm and golden they had is now gone and dull.

 

[Yoshiman222]

I think this is good. Rare isn't what it use to be.
Ditching the name now will save it's name for the older games they create, instead of how it's ruining it's name now with it's current batch of games.

...it's actually a good thing that Donkey Kong stayed with Nintendo then, right?

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

It's actually a good thing that Donkey Kong stayed with Nintendo then, right?

Actually, Donkey Kong is originally from Nintendo, not Rare. Rare created the other Kongs, but let Nintendo keep them for their own.

 

[Yoshiman222]

It's actually a good thing that Donkey Kong stayed with Nintendo then, right?

Actually, Donkey Kong is originally from Nintendo, not Rare. Rare created the other Kongs, but let Nintendo keep them for their own.

...my point being that Donkey Kong's current form was created by Rare, and almost everything else about him as well.