Now here’s definitely an interesting rumor for you to sip your morning coffee on. With so many gamers crying out for the Banjo franchise on the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console, some gamers are now starting to cry out for the Banjo franchise on the Xbox Live Arcade. In the last edition of the Rare Scribes (where gamers send in questions to Rare and they provide answers), one question asks Rare of the possibility of Banjo on the Xbox Live Arcade:

I’m absolutely SICK of people asking for Banjo-Kazooie on Virtual Console. Why the hell hasn’t anyone thought of Banjo on Xbox Live Arcade!? But I ask you, is it even possible to release Banjo-Kazooie on the Arcade? I don’t see why not, I mean you own the franchise, not Nintendo. You would just have to remove any and all references to Nintendo, which would probably be a pain in the – how you Brits say – “arse.” But wouldn’t that be cool? Maybe release Banjo-Tooie along with it and call the whole thing Banjo-Kazooie-Tooie.

How did Rare respond to the question?

Halloween? Bit optimistic, aren’t you? Here’s the Banjo team on Banjo-Kazooie-Tooie: “Or even Banjo-KazTooie? Let’s just get the new 360 game finished before we consider anything else. If it proves successful then we may well cash in by flogging all the dead horses again, but if it flops we’ll shuffle broken-heartedly onto a generic WWII shooter while sobbing quietly onto our keyboards.”

Not only does Rare not shoot down the question, they actually hint that it is a possible future project if they decide to go that route. Now there’s no reason to get overly excited and think that Banjo is coming to the Xbox Live Arcade, we just wanted to let you know that it’s a possibility in the future.

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