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Guitarguy said:

I would say Nintendo's purchase of Rare benefitted Nintendo greatly during the SNES and N64 era and their absence in the GCN days was very noticeable.

Nintendo didn't own Rare, they had 49% and MS bought 51% what forced Nintendo to sell their 49%.

I have no idea why they didn't buy them, though.