Microsoft Gets Cute About Possible Rare Replay Release On Wii U

It's Microsoft and once they know their software will sell much better on other hardware than their own, they will release it on those platforms. Though it's probably more likely to release on 3DS or it's successor because it won't compete directly with the XB1.

Would they add the Wizards & Warriors trilogy to it? Maybe Diddy Kong Racing?

I already own it on Xbox One but this would be amazing for those who don't. I am definitely looking forward to playing classics like Jet Force Gemini in the modern era, just gotta make time to do it.

I don't think Rare Replay on the Wii U is actually THAT crazy. It's not software that sells systems like Halo or Gears, so MS wouldn't actually be losing any hardware sales by putting it out on a rival machine. Having said that, I don't actually think it would sell that great on Wii U as we've seen some great 3rd party stuff get ignored.

The internet can give a very false image about what is popular among certain groups of fans. Just look at how much buzz games like Xenoblade or Bayonetta 2 last year got from Nintendo fan sites and communities, but then failed to set the chart alight in any of the major markets.

Rare Replay is the only game from x-box (that I can't find in my PS4) that I want. It would be great if it was on Wii U but it won't come.

I sense a 200-comment thread incoming...

I NEED BANJO-KAZOOIE ON THE WII U!!!!

I wish Nintendo would put Gamecube Classics collections out on Wii U. Five games on a disk or something. Just saying.....

Sounds like Banjo-kazooie as the next smash Bros character

Project Gotham Racing HD please Phil.

Even if Microsoft owns the rights to all the Rare games released under their buyout. The collection could just be filled with games released under Nintendo like DK and maybe Star Fox. Rare has been less popular on Xbox than on SNES and N64

The Xbone has even fewer good exclusives than Wii U. This would bring one of the few worthwhile things on the One available to more people.

I don't think this will ever happen. It's more likely to be put on Steam than Wii U let's be realistic here.

I have a sneaky suspicion Microsoft and Nintendo are teaming up with something to announce like this Rare Reply to be released on WiiU or something else next year.

You'd never see Sony talk like this with one of their own properties tbf

Falls under the "take my money now please" category. But I've been around long enough to know it would never happen. Fun to dream though, old RARE games belong on a Nintendo system.

Becoming friends with Nintendo are we Microsoft?

Man, the one Xbox exclusive I'm interested in. It would be aweosome to see it on Wii U, but I'm obviously not holding my breath.

@Peach64 It's because if fans adoring the quality of the games, so the fandom is louder.

Would certainly hype me more than Minecraft on Wii U did/does.

I would buy it, for the bear&bird alone.

I'd buy it if it ever happened but I'm not holding my breath

@belmont Same here mate, Rare Replay is THE only XB1 game I want!

There are maybe a dozen people who bought an Xbone for this game alone so I can't see that a port would be a bad idea for MS/Rare. The X360 remasters would obviously not make the jump, but I feel that this collection would sell very well on Wii U.
That said, having this on Wii U at a reasonable price would completely shatter the presumed value of and pricing model for Nintendo's own VC games. So, yeah. Not gonna happen.

The sole reason I would want an Xbox One! I don't see it happening, though.

How about a Rare Replay: Wii U Edition that replaces Nuts n' Bolts with Star Fox Adventures?

Okay how bout Nintendo agree to give Microsoft the rights to released GoldenEye 007 on the Xbox One and Wii U gets the Rare Replay. In the end everyone wins.

Ha, fat chance.

Releasing Minecraft on Wii U means nothing. Minecraft is on everything anymore so it's no surprise that Wii U got it (other than how long it took). The fact some people assume something like Rare Replay is coming is nuts.

Time out.
Look at the tweet again. Why is he sending it to Ninlendo of America?
The tweet is real but why is he sending it to that specific account if it isn't the real one?

I almost think things like this are Microsoft grooming Nintendo, or positioning themselves, in the chance than Nintendo's next hardware stab misses again and they go 3rd party.

Back to reality (almost), if Wii U gets RR I would hope we get Diddy Kong Racing, it seriously is one of the best video games of all time. They could even dock off the Xbox games, which by and large just don't hold their own against the Nintendo era ones.

I could see this happening if it were an easy port, but I have no idea what it would take to port 30 games to Wii U, plus the very nice Xbox One front end they wrapped it all in. I think Wii U could run it all, but it could require a lot of reprogramming so it might not be worth it. Maybe on NX. Launch titles sell well b/c there is less competition from evergreen titles and it's possible NX will have a similar architecture making it a much easier port.

I would buy it day 1 for $30. Unless Nintendo got a hold of it and either changed it to demos only or charged $150 for it. Selling older games at a reasonable price isn't something Nintendo seems inclined to do. Probably make it a free demo down load package and then we would need to pay to unlock each game separately.

Though I don't generally buy Microsoft software (except Windows and MS Office), I would buy Rare Replay.

I would love for this to happen. Perfect Dark and Conker's Bad Fur Day are worth the entry price alone. Although I HIGHLY doubt we would see this outside Xbone bringing it to the Wii U/NX sometime next year would probably give the game a bigger boost in sales, because that's where the target audience is.

There's a lot of great X1 exclusives. Rare Replay aside, Ori and the Blind Forest is worth buying the system for. Ya I said it- it's worth buying the system for.

Then you've got Halo 5- just fantastic. The Master Chief Collection- all 4 games AND updated to include REACH. That's also excellent. Forza Horizon 2 gives Mario Kart a run for its money- it's not a SIM like the mainline series- the Horizon entries are arcade racers, and this one is just excellent.

You've got Gears Ultimate, you've got Rise of the Tomb Raider, and let me just say- RotTR is fantastic.

Toss in backwards compatibility and uh, it's hard finding a reason NOT to own an X1.

@JaxonH yeah Microsoft really stepped it up recently, to the point when I couldn't resist buying the console for £300 on the day Rare Replay came out. It's hard to swallow having owned both that by all likelihood the Wii U and Xbox One's sales combined won't reach the PS4's. Not that this is a competition worth getting personally involved in or anything, just pointing out the stats. At least both Nintendo and Microsoft are seeing healthy profits for their efforts, which have been considerably more than Sony's. In my opinion.

@Robotron2084 : And thats why i bought Xbox One after E3 presentation 2015. I bought Rare Replay and loads of other games.

@JaxonH Master Chief Collection has ODST, not Reach. Some time in the future you will be able to play Reach and Wars via backwards compatibility though so XB1 will be the ultimate Halo console.

@JaxonH : I agree. Xbox One also supports external Storage, Streaming to PC etc.
Its even sold cheaper than Wii U now and then.

Xbox One is flamed because of PS4 sales, but because of its content. Xbox One is superior on hardware features over PS4 too.

@Sabrewing Diddy Kong Racing please

I hereby promise to eat my hat if this ever happens. Nuff said.

It would be nice to have Rare Collection on Wii U or NX, but I doubt it'll happen soon. It can still be used to get people to buy an Xbox One, so they wouldn't want to give up exclusivity so soon. Maybe once it stops selling on Xbox One in a few years, a NX port might appear.

amiibo support please

Rare Replay on Nintendo should merit a little Donkey Kong Country trilogy and DK64 as updates for XBox gamers. Fair is fair, right?

@Grumblevolcano
Oh that's right. Thanks, always get those mixed up.

They just confirmed on Twitter, it will remain Xbox One exclusive

They just confirmed on Twitter, it will remain Xbox One exclusive

Would be awesome but I cant see it Nintendo should have brought Rare years ago and some other studios as well would have more games in the pot rather than long delays etc.

Just like Microsoft to rile up fans and send them to some other twitter account with false hopes heheh.

Simply put, they'd rather keep it on their console where it'll sell on discount and be forgotten much sooner. And that's when they release it on PC with some "we support the PC!" PR statement.

@JaxonH not to mention that their holiday bundles are so much better than the PS4's.

Do you know what I believe now? NX will be a cooperation project between Nintendo (N) and Microsoft (X like Xbox). Recently there's so much love going on between these two. I mean, Minecraft is coming to Wii U. That Xbox guy says he'd love to see Nintendo games come to Xbox. Now Rare Replay could be a possibility for Wii U. Something seems to be going on, folks.

@belmont
Same here I bought a ps4 but rare replay was the only game I really really wanted on xb1.

Just play on the original Nintendo consoles. And there's exclusive Rare Content on the eshop.... like original DK trilogy

Come on, make it for Wii U and Donkey Kong games to the mix.

Rare Replay is awesome, and I think Xbox One has a nice lineup coming. I look forward to Scalebound and Cuphead. I don't see Rare Replay coming to Nintendo, but I have the DK Country games on VC. So I'm good to go.

Most of the games on Rare Replay were originally released on Nintendo consoles. Out of respect for the publising work Nintendo did, why wouldn't a Rare collection-type game come to Wii U or NX?

I think this is a case of some Nintendo fans being unable to cope with the fact that Microsoft bought Rare.

Minecraft was multiplatform and then bought by Microsoft. The Xbox exclusives are exclusive to Xbox, unless they are released for PC. However, Microsoft already said that Rare Replay won't be on PC. I bought an Xbox One for Rare Replay, because that collection is better than most modern games anyway.

Microsoft bought the part of Rare that belonged to their founders (Stamper brothers) and after that Nintendo sold their part (49%) to Microsoft. After this acquisition, lots of people left Rare. Nintendo could have bought the 100% of Rare if they wanted to back in the day, but Nintendo thought it was not worth it. Nintendo was dumb, of course.

Non story, it'll never happen

If I were Reggie, I'd try to work this one out. To all the nay-sayers, did you really expect Minecraft to come to Nintendo a week ago--no, no you didn't. In fact if you told me a week ago that a Microsoft game was coming to Nintendo, I would have thought a collection of retro games would be a safer bet than a game like Minecraft.

I have an XBOX One and I still have not picked this up yet. I just have too many games to play currently with such little time. I'll probably get around to picking it up early next year.

Even though I did jump on the twitter bandwagon this was the response I was expecting. To be honest I would even take these as separate VC titles.

@JaxonH The Xbox One won me over as a customer due to havng stronger exclusives, BC with the Xbox 360(I can play Doom II again!), a better control that does not have any gimmicks, and some cool hardware features like the ability to stream to any Windows PC in my house.

I love my Xbox One, and I have no intention of selling it off for a PS4 or NX.

Can't afford a second console, but I still might pick up Rare Replay and just play the games using emulators. May or may not be entirely legal, but certainly more legitimate than just picking up the ROMs without owning a copy of the game. I'm picking up the Humble Bundle Neo-Geo collection for the same reason.

Here's the thing Microsoft...Nintendo fans would appreciate Rare Replay far more than Xbox people. Sad, but true. Think about that. People like to joke about Nintendo going third party but Microsoft never had any shame about what they're after: money. So make some by putting it on Wii U. Bring those IPs home.

I'm sure Microsoft will atleast think about it even if it will never happen! Most of Rare's fans are still with Nintendo - Rare's back catalogue certainly isn't a system seller for Microsoft, so there is always a chance...Atleast if they think a profit will be made.

The response from Rare is... heartbreakingly blunt, considering this is Rare. Not Bungie, not Bethesda, not Rockstar... no, RARE.

@VanillaLake It wouldn't make sense for Rare Replay to be on PC. PC gamers already have access to emulators to play all these titles.

I'd pay 50 for this on Wii U. I still have all the N64 games, but honestly, I'd get this for Kameo: Elements of Power, Viva Pinata, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, and Banjo Nuts&Bolts. These are the ones missing on Nintendo and in my collection,

For maximum profit Microsoft should break the games up and release them individually on the 3DS.

Aww man, Rare Replay was the main reason I even considered Xbox One over PS4 (neither have yet to release a must have exclusive that will sell a console to me) I know it's not feasible, even if 90% of the games in the package are Nintendo games, but this would sure make me one happy Wii U owner to say the least. Well, back to working on my trans-dimensional portal to the universe where Rare was purchased by Nintendo. Oh wait, these are just LEGO.

I actually have Rare Replay... the games are not that good and I almost forgot I purchased it.

@liveswired Not true that most of Rare fans are Wii U owners, lots of them have a PS4 or Xbox One now.

@GreatPlayer Classic Rare games are very good. Anyway, I'm curious about what games are good in your opinion.

I would gladly pay full price for Rare Replay on the Wii U!
With Phil Spencer's friendly and open attitude towards competition....there could be a chance But...very tiny.

I'd buy it on 3DS only, only a choice now, but when I had WiiU I still wouldn't have picked it up on there. The 3DS is just I think better suited for what's there.