This is mostly information we know, but there are a couple new bits. The info is directly from the magazine that has exclusive screenshots of GoldenEye on XBLA...

GoldenEye was set for release in the middle of this year, until it was cancelled late in 2007, apparently at the behest of Nintendo. As Oddjaw tells it, Nintendo America boss Reggie Fils-Aime was supposedly completely behind the 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 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 absolutely 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 rumoured that the threat to Activision's relationship with Nintendo was enough for them to disband the project.

So not only do we miss out on GoldenEye, but we miss out on Rare's back catalog as well!? Man, that adds an extra element of pain...

Reader Zooba notes that Xbox 360 World may have originally gotten their info from a Penny-Arcade forum post. This story has gotten so mess that I have no idea what to believe!

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