they shouldn't have sold it in the first place, nintendo are knobs for doing that

Ew, Perfect Dark: Zero was terrible on the 360. My friend and I played it co-op and didn't like it at all and he was a huge Perfect Dark fan too. The only parts that we liked where from certain lines of dialog being so bad, they were hilarious.

The truth of the matter is that If Rare were still making games for nintendo then it would be costing them a fraction of the amount of money there spending now and the sales of there games would have been a lot larger.

   while its true pdz couldnt hold a candle to the original pd and cant even be mentioned along side the name of pds 00 agent predecessor, for what its worth i really enjoyed pdz it was my 1st 360 game and still gets plenty of rotation

ok now i understand the wii and ds user bases are alot larger than the 360s but doesnt the 360 still sell more software which is what rare makes....   maybe you meant more ppl interested in owning a wii or ds are the same ppl interested in owning a rare game... thatd be more opinion than fact though if that is what you meant

Nintendo sold Rare because Rare was already losing talent and their games were suffering.

Thats why Microsoft should keep Rare. Why wouldn't they want to diversify their game lineup?? I think this acquisition was a great investment by Microsoft.

Nintendo definitely could've used Rare during the Gamecube era. I really enjoyed Starfox Adventures. Now, Nintendo's doing very well without their 64-bit "Hit"men.

I still enjoy Rare's offerings (played Kameo the day my 360 came back from the RRoD, despite it being one of the first 360 games I bought). Part of me still thinks that Rare is like some super-charged sports car that Nintendo sold right when the engine was starting to go bad.

 Agreed! We only want their IPs. The company itself is useless.

 Nintendo sold their shares of Rare to Microsoft because Microsoft had bought out 51% of the company. If you were Nintendo, would you A) sell the remaining shares for a lot of money to invest in your own developers, or B) keep 49% of a company that will never make another game for your system again?

What they did was what any company in that situation would have done.