Nintendo Apes Rare with Rare

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Viper1 said:

This is not correct.  Nintendo owned 51% of Rare but sold their shares back to them.  Then MS bought 100% of Rare AFTER that.

Source?  Every link I've read said that the Stampers had 51%, with Nintendo peaking at 49%.  Nintendo was offered the chance to buy all of Rare before the offer was extended to Microsoft, but they never owned a majority of the company.