I think they just wanted to move on to new franchises. Sadly, that involved their selling both franchises to a shovelware company, but it also gave us Ratchet & Clank, so I'm sort of divided...
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom







