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They didn't really sell Rare. Nintendo had a 49% ownership of the company back in the N64 days. Then when Xbox came along, Microsoft bought the other 51% for an absurd amount of money. Something like 200 million. After that Nintendo sold off its stake in the company too because 51 is the magic number that makes all other numbers worthless.