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But you'll never get to play it. Goldeneye was set for release in the middle of this year, until it was canceled in late 2007, apparently at the behest of Nintendo. As Oddjaw tells it, Nintendo America boss Reggie Fils-Aime was supposedly completely behind this idea, knowing well what the project would mean to gamers, especially when the deal was sweetened by Rare's offer to port the game to the Wii, while making the rest of their back catalogue available on the Virtual Console.
The agreement between the parties allowed the game to be developed almost to completion before Nintendo's Japanese boss Satoru Iwata decided that under no circumstances would Nintendo allow the game to see release on another platform. While Ninty apparently have neither rights to the code nor any legal means to block the release, it's rumored that the threat to Activision's relationship with Nintendo was enough for them to disband the project. Had Rare ported Perfect Dark, we would presume that Microsoft would have happily told Nintendo to turn their objections sideways and shove them somewhere unconfortable - but with Activision as the middleman, Nintendo were able to halt the game
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