Every Xbox 360 gamer already knows that GoldenEye 007, the Nintendo 64 classic game from Rare, has no chance of being revived on the Xbox Live Arcade platform since Microsoft doesn’t own the brand and rights to the game.
Knowing that Microsoft will release the original N64 game Banjo-Kazooie on the Arcade platform later this year, we asked recently appointed General Manager of Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer, in an interview in Los Angeles, if more classic titles from the Rare catalogue would eventually hit XBLA.
"We do have the rights of the complete Rare catalogue (except GoldenEye 007). We’re studying all the possibilities to bring classic games from the past like Killer Instinct and Perfect Dark," said Spencer.
No timeline has been given of course but something is telling us that Microsoft is already preparing something behind curtains...we’ll let you know of course.