>>718236183
I cannot state this hard enough, especially when Rare state it themselves: Microsoft didn't do SHIT to stop Rare from doing ANYTHING. In fact, that was the whole problem. They were notoriously hands-off with them and let them fuck around with 50 million prototype games that went nowhere. Kinect Sports was Rare's idea. Not doing shit with Banjo-Kazooie was their idea, they didn't even want to make another game and mocked everyone in the BK game they did make for even suggesting it. Every bad decision was of their making
They were never that good of a developer anyway. So many of their games are just ambitious proofs of concept with shitty controls. Their best game was Jetpac lol