1UP reports that the XBLA version of GoldenEye was in development by Rare for two solid months before the project got shelved. Shelved, because Microsoft and Nintendo couldn't agree on financials, profit sharing and all the grown-up business stuff that's involved. As a result of the shelving, the GoldenEye and XBLA communities have united over at GoldenEye XBL in an effort to bring attention to the drama at hand by sending out emails and doing some old fashioned petition signing. Again, we can't be 100% certain that the GoldenEye / Microsoft / Nintendo drama is based on fact, but if you choose to believe and GoldenEye on the XBLA is important to you, then by all means get active. Unite!
[Thanks, to everyone who sent this in]
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
1-13-2008 @ 4:29PM
YoRone22 said...
Online petitions don't do shit. Remember the petition for Devil May Cry? How did that end up?
1-13-2008 @ 4:35PM
Jay said...
Who's to say Nintendo's being the poor sport on this one? It could have been
MS: Hey, can we put goldeneye on XBLA?
N: Sure, if we can put it on VC
MS: F U....more monies for us
N: Then no....you can't put it on XBLA
The best way this could work out is they put it out on both (considering I have the Wii but do not yet have a 360 due to lack of monies)
1-13-2008 @ 4:39PM
David W. said...
hahahaha...guessing there was a but more to it than that, funny though :)
Besides, it was probably more like...
Nin: We get 60% of the profits
Mic: No we get 60% of the profits
Nin: nooooo we get 60% of the profits
Mic: Noooooo we get 60% of the profits
Nin: Noooo wiiiiii get 60% of the profits
Mic: aha, I see what you did there...funny...but we still get 60%
something along those lines :)
1-13-2008 @ 5:29PM
SadisticHam said...
"Online petitions don't do shit. Remember the petition for Devil May Cry? How did that end up?"
How? It ended up with Capcom releasing an official statement and addressing the fans. It got NOTICED. That's the idea of a petition, it's the best we can do.
Signed, I'd happily pay whatever they charge.
1-13-2008 @ 5:30PM
BoxNut said...
This would be really cool.
I'd also love to see Duke Nukem 3D, as well as Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project... I would happily give them my money for those two.
1-13-2008 @ 6:31PM
Perno said...
No Odd Job.
1-13-2008 @ 9:07PM
Mordeux said...
IT MUST HAPPEN.
1-13-2008 @ 10:29PM
BananaBoat said...
If it has online, I'd buy it.
If it doesn't? I've still got the original cart. Why buy it again?
1-13-2008 @ 11:16PM
ExMcloud said...
Y cant we have this game MS....Sob.... Please please...This would literally be the first arcade game that's considered a system seller....I'd buy this and Perfect dark for 20 bux easy
1-14-2008 @ 12:21AM
Chris said...
This shit would sell consoles.
1-14-2008 @ 12:41AM
The BS Police said...
Seriously, this is the very first FPS I ever played, and that was when I was 11 years old back in 1998, I remember it quit clearly.
I was watching my friends Hockey Game and after the game we whent down to walmart where he got an N64 and Goldeneye.
I never knew that day would effect my life to this day, because Goldeneye got me into FPS shooters.
Without it I wouldn't have played Perfect dark, without it, i would never have Played Duke Nukem 3D and Doom, and without it, I would not have played Halo!
I want to see this game and Perfect dark go to the XBLA, those firends I were talking about back 10 years ago, well, we all own Xbox 360's and we play Halo 3 regularly, and we wanna see Goldeneye and Perfect dark on the XBLA.
1-14-2008 @ 4:18AM
cg said...
Isnt it a game best left in the past anyway?? I wouldnt want to play it in 2008. Nostalgia is an illness.
1-14-2008 @ 7:17AM
Whingnut said...
Bah,
I can't play most of my downloaded XBLA titles since I've had my RRoD box replaced because of the overly restrictive DRM. I'm not buying anything until the establish an effective means of transferring licenses to new consoles. In the mean-time, I'll just bust out my old-school 360 and play Goldeneye if I get the hankerin'.
1-14-2008 @ 7:52AM
captain underpants and the bringdown gang said...
www.goldeneyesource.com you are all welcome.
1-14-2008 @ 11:26AM
ccc said...
What needs to happen is MS needs to make a deal with Nintendo letting Rare make it for the Wii downloadable as well then The big N most likley wouldn't have any troubles with this. Problem solved.
1-14-2008 @ 1:00PM
George Arauz said...
Sick man.. dude.. u love this game
1-14-2008 @ 6:55PM
JaseH said...
Please Nintendo... give these fanboys something to play.
Halo 3 has already bored them enough to ask for a 97' game.
They're pleading with their lives.
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JaseH.