Banjo Kazooie N64 titles could come to Wii

A portion of a Gamasutra interview with Rare software engineer James Thomas and designer Justin Cook…

GS: I mentioned Killer Instinct — a lot of people are hoping that you guys are going to do that again. I thought it would be very difficult since you’re Microsoft-owned, but if you do have that relationship, then on the handheld page…

JT: The thing is, when we were working with Nintendo, there were some properties that were ours — and are ours, furthermore. Banjo is a great example. Banjo is all ours, although potentially Nintendo could release the old games for the Virtual Console on the Wii. Any future ventures would be from Rare on whatever format we’re working on. It’s a pretty even split. Obviously they didn’t give us Donkey Kong. I don’t know why. (laughs)

You can read a lot more on the relationship between Rare and Nintendo by clicking over to the full interview.