Why can't other 2nd party Nintendo devs ever compete with RARE?

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Smear-Gel said:

Rare has definitely fallen much farther than Squeenix

Retro is, for lack of a better word, RARE. Many of the people at Retro now made up what was the much smaller RARE back then.

The brand RARE has nosedived, the actual talent never left Nintendo.