Ex-Rare employee claims Microsoft canned Killer Instinct 3
In an interview with Not Enough Shaders, former Rare modeler Donnchadh Murphy explains the fall of Rare and pins it straight on Microsoft’s lapel. While Rare was known for building a variety of amazing games, Microsoft may have made some changes to their business model.
This decision apparently had an even more detrimental effect after Rare’s founders, the Stamper brothers, decided to leave the company. Despite this loss, Rare still had talented people and they had “numerous projects that were put forward that I [Murphy] believe would have been huge hits, but MS rejected them one after the other”. It only gets worse from here though.
When asked which IP Murphy would be most interested in reviving he had this to say: "Probably the same game every Rare fan wants to see and that's Killer Instinct. We all wanted to make KI3, but Microsoft [was] more interested in broadening their demographic than making another fighting game. So it never got made, I doubt it ever will."
Ouch! I sure hope nobody had gotten their hopes up for another Killer Instinct…
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g1 DISCUSSIONS
Earthworm James
With the way Rare is nowadays, I'm not at all surprised.
If we ARE gonna get a new Killer Instinct Game, it'll probably be along the lines of" Killer Instinct: Nuts and Bolts" or "Avatar Instinct"...
pololmejor
I just lost faith in myself for not doing anything. And I killed myself a few minutes ago
Alriik
*Falls to knees.* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! WHY BILL!?!?!? WHYYYYYYY!?!?!?!?!?!
IronMaster777
The thing is rare's titles were all average since coming to Microsoft so maybe Microsoft are doing us a favour by not releasing an average title in the franchise all we can do is lament how good Rare used to be
darkhyrulelord
Microsoft really doesn't look that good after hearing this. This is a very sad tale indeed.
E-GAG101
Nintendo, please Nintendo..............
mychael
Why did publishers became douchebags nowadays?
Jack_Red89
As much I respect Microsoft, they can kiss my ass. I mean come on it's Killer Instinct god damn it. What a blow to us waiting all these years to find out we're wasting our time. Also are they trying to turn Rare into the next Nintendo. What if Streets of Rage now belongs to THQ. It would suck right then why did they think this is a good idea. Oh I'll tell you they think making kid games would sell. Honestly Nintendo does it better there's no replacement for that. I am so pissed about this news fuck you Microsoft.
supermatt64
Thanks Sean, this will be useful for a future post.
southsing
Microsoft is slowly edging out EA as the worst video game publisher...