Soundwave on 24 August 2014
| XanderXT said: The only reason that Iwata sold Rare is because if he didn't, I'm pretty sure Microsoft would have bought Nintendo. |
MS made an offer for Nintendo in late 1999 or early 2000 and Yamauchi actually did consider it, but the Rare thing was seperate. MS simply bid more money than anyone else. I still kinda wish Nintendo had sold to a third party publisher. At least that way they could've still gotten Rare games and worked out agreements for Virtual Console stuff.
