Nintendo wants Goldeneye back

[Shadow1psc]

MTV's Stephen Totilo recently grilled Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime about all things Wii. When questioned, the NoA president didn't hold back his desire to see GoldenEye returned to Nintendo's platform, revealing to Totilo, "Suffice it to say we would love to see GoldenEye on Virtual Console, so we're exploring all the rights issues."

So how far is Nintendo willing to "explore"? If GoldenEye is to enjoy its homecoming, royalties could certainly be owed to Microsoft, which now owns developer Rare, and Activision, which scooped up the Bond license earlier this year. Judging by Reggie's comments -- "the pain is worth the gain" -- Nintendo may be willing to cut those checks.

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[Lizardbreath]

That would be fantastic, I would love to see goldeneye for the new system.

 

[Emperor Pan I]

That doesn't make any sense at all. Rare doesn't own the franchise, or the rights to the game. Activision would be the only one, seeing as how they own the rights.

 

[x42bn6]

Either way, this will be one interesting application for the Wiinote.*

 

[Lizardbreath]

They would make more money if they bought it and worked the name. And they need to keep the facility.

 

[Emperor Pan I]

The wiimote wouldn't work, because it is simply is an emulation of the N64 hardware, which never used the wiimote.

They would have a better chance if Activision published an updated game with the wiimote function.

 

[Lizardbreath]

That's what I thought they meant by the article.

 

[Krovvy]

The wiimote wouldn't work, because it is simply is an emulation of the N64 hardware, which never used the wiimote.

They would have a better chance if Activision published an updated game with the wiimote function.

It actually wouldn't be that hard to do, it's all just X and Y.

Would love to see Nintendo pick up another franchise.

 

[bamthedoc]

It's not quite that simple; I'm afraid. You'd have to take it off the emulator and rewrite (even if very basic) some game code to make it compatible. The way the N64 emulation software is written on the Wii now ensures that only the classic and GameCube controllers work for SNES and N64. I think the classic controller is required for Sega and TurboGrafics (sp?) games.

Now... That's not to say some hacker won't figure out a way to do it. It would just require patches for every single game you want to play that way. It's simple when you just look at it from an x/y/z axis, but the control scheme between N64 and Wii controllers are very different. We also can't remove the fact that the emulators are written a specific way

 

[ChrisH36]

I would actually like to play Goldeneye on a Wii.

It is just amazing what Wii is doing to get itself better than the other chains.