Studiet Playtonic består hovedsageligt af veteraner der dengang under Rare gav os netop Banjo Kazooie, og derfor har der svirret rygter om for nylig, at Microsoft var interesseret i at købe studiet, og netop sætte dem til at lave et spil med disse ikoniske maskotter, da de ejer licensen.
Men det er altså ikke tilfældet tilsyneladende. I en meddelelse på Twitter slår Playtonic fast, at de hverken er i forhandlinger med Microsoft, eller er interesserede i at blive købt.
"While we would love to work with the bear and the bird again, that ball isn't in our court. We are keen to continue progressing as a studio, carrying the experience of games we worked on, old and new, to create new characters and adventures for you to (hopefully) love. We're sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear from us, at first, we found it amusing that Ed Bryan's bag is being used as serious 'evidence', but we reckon it wouldn't be fair if we didn't set the record straight,"
Det lader dog til at de faktisk gerne vil lave et Banjo Kazooie-spil. Mon ikke Microsoft kunne hyre studiet til at lave det alligevel?