| arsenal009 said: Maybe they got rid of them cause one of the main things in rare's games were state of the art graphics & that wasn't really part of nintendo's strategy anymore? Either way, i miss them too, they should come back :p |
No.
Stamper brothers wanted to sell their quotes of Rare so they offered them to Nintendo ( Nintendo "only" had 49% ).
Nintendo saw it wasn't worth buy Rare so they let know to Stamper brothers that they could sell Rare to another company.
Stamper brothers gave to Nintendo US$ 100 millions , plus "their" most lucrative IP ( Donkey Kong ).
Nintendo left al the other IPs created by Rare to them. Then Stamper brothers sold Rare for US$ 377 million to Microsoft.
Everyone knows how commecially succesfull was Rare after their department from Nintendo.
PS: I think Nintendo at the time paid US$ 40 million to get 49% of Rare.
“In the entertainment business, there are only heaven and hell, and nothing in between and as soon as our customers bore of our products, we will crash.” Hiroshi Yamauchi
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