Thread 11914726

Has Nintendo ever publicly acknowledged or thanked Rare for saving their bacon in the 4th and 5th gens?

>>11914726 (OP)
They didn't save Nintendo during the 4th gen, they had everyone's support then

They didn't save Nintendo during the 5th gen, Gamefreak did

Donkey Kong Bananza but is not retro.

>saving
I hate this new genre of youtubercore zoomer online discourse.

>>11914726 (OP)
Where the hell did all this 4th gen 5th gen 6th gen talk come from? I never know what you zoomer kids are referring to.

>>11914732
fpbp

>>11914726 (OP)

Have you thanked Nintendo today for saving Video Games?

There would be no Video Games if Nintendo did not save Video Games.

Thank you Nintendo for saving Video Games!

>>11914764
Thank you Nintendo

>>11914732
Essentially this.
The SNES was making bank and kicking ass in sales regardless of DKC. As for the 64 Rare may have moved a few more consoles with Banjo, Goden Eye, and DK 64 but it ultimately didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The 64 was going to flounder because of it's decison to use cartridges and the Playstation was always going to allure the 3rd party support Nintendo lost.

>>11914764
...And thus, the video game industry was revived.

>>11914743
Some Wikipedia editors made up arbitrary groupings of video game consoles in 2000s, then it got picked up by journalists and now twenty years later people can't stop using that terminology.

>>11914796
Can't wait for Super Famidaily in 2030.

>>11914726 (OP)
"Thanked"?

>>11914764
releasing the same games 30 times is not saving anything

>>11914909

Nintendo saved Video Games!

If not for Nintendo saving Video Games, there would be no more Video Games after E.T.(mpls) killed Video Games had Nintendo not saved Video Games D:

Thank you Nintendo for saving Video Games! :D

>>11914987
We would be stuck with british microcomputer shit, what a nightmare.
Thanks, Japan.

>>11915006
Not really. We could afford IBM clones and other real computers instead of needing to make do with childrens toys.

Many brits (lowercase for disrespect) were coping with only having Zed-Ex Speculums well into the 90s lol

>>11915015
>IBM
And play what, Oregon's Tail?
It took id software until 1993 to release doom. And remember, they were inspired by japanese games, they even tried (and failed) to make a Super Mario Bros 3 port on PC.

>>11914796
You can't slander RndStranger like this.

>>11914804
If he does another one it's gonna be the Genesis or something weird and obscure.

>>11915015
Pretty sure they had C64s and Amigas by that point. ZX Spectrum is contemporary with the Atari 2600 isn't it?

>>11914796
>line goes down again
they knew the vidya industry would crash again. that's why they put little effort on the switch 2. they know vidya is declining again.

>>11915365
That's how pulse works anon, up and down. The problem is when it's a straight line.

>>11914726 (OP)
Where's this 4 color Rare logo from? One of their games?

>>11914796
Huh, never thought about the Pulse Line series, was it supposed to resemble a heartbeat restarting?

>>11915403
Looks like it. If unintentional, it's an amazing coincidence.

>>11915385
i read it as a stock graph.

>>11915445
Goybrained.

>>11914787
This, rare is overrated and overestimated as fuck. Rarefags genuinely Nintendo would have died without them but there is a reason why Nintendo didn't bother to buy them

>>11914726 (OP)
If only Sega had a Rare.

>>11914787
>The SNES was making bank and kicking ass in sales regardless of DKC.

Sonic would have steamrolled them if it weren't for DKC. The blue blur made Super Mario World look like pokey baby crap by comparison.

The funny thing is that Miyamoto will never forgive the Gaijin for bailing them out. He's still seething to this day that a bunch of round-eyes could out-do him at his own game.

>>11917209
No one give a fuck about DKC compared to Sonic

Sonic won the mascot race and DK didn't even participate

>>11914764
No, I wish videogames had not been saved.

>>11914732
I'm not sure if people remember anymore but in '93 and all the way up to DKC's release the genny was steadily outselling the snezz. Killer Instinct in the summer of '95 was also another big game that solidified their lead in the console race.

DKC was nowhere near as good as any first-party Nintendo game.

>>11914819
bananza recognized a lot of the DKC games and it fully canonized back K.Rools existence. fuck you.

>>11914726 (OP)
there's this recent game that basically became a love letter to them by the end. apparently the team consisted of people who grew up on dkc

>>11914726 (OP)
They actually did, with Miyamoto giving Rare a mansion to work at. Do your fucking research, zoomer.

>>11914732
DKC was what kept the SNES alive it the mid 90s until the arrival of the N64 at least in the USA cuz Japs had FFVI, DQVI and CT, while Game Freak save Nintendo ass in both the 5th and 6th gens.

>>11917243
This is what your brain on "how would you saved the Saturn" threads do to a nigga.
>>11918620
And this is "I made the above comment to obvious so I better tone my shit posting down" does to a nigga.

>>11918620
DKC and especially DKC2 blow SMW out of the water. SMW was such an utterly shamefur dispray after SMB3. At least they made up for it with YI.

>Implying Nintendo needs saving
Kek

>>11917209
>Sonic would have steamrolled them if it weren't for DKC
Nigga Star Fox and Yoshi's island prove otherwise. That blue rat wasn't gonna save Sega from it's retarded ventures with the CD 32x or saturn

>>11914764
>Have you thanked Nintendo today for saving Video Games?

>>11919685
>at least in the USA cuz Japs had FFVI, DQVI and CT

donkey kong country was enormously popular in japan
even DKC 3 sold over 1 million copies on super famicom in japan alone

>>11919685
Explains why they let GF do whatever lazy shit they want nowadays

>>11919696
He is not wrong, DK is not as beloved as Sonic

>>11914732
>They didn't save Nintendo during the 5th gen
from 1997-2000 they sure did. People would've cashed out their 64 long before Ocarina came out.

I doubt people would've invested in the N64 without DKC. At twelve I wanted a Saturn but couldn't find it; we were stuck with N64.
GCN also would've been D.O.A. if RARE games weren't on the agenda at the start; they could've sold millions less that first year. And it's a shame that RARE was bleeding staff, a bit of foresight from Nintendo would've kept those people onboard.

It's sad what happened to the Donkey Kong franchise in particular, it's only gotten worse since RARE walked.

>>11914732
>Gamefreak did

Truth nvk