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The Stamper brothers were innovative, as much as their British contemporaries the Oliver twins were.

However, they couldn't have been too much of geniuses, if they mismanaged their company into the ground. They had a great thing going with Nintendo, and obviously made a huge blunder in selling themselves to Microsoft. It would have been better for them to go full multiplat third party (again), than to do what they did. The audience for their style of games, for the most part, never has been on MS systems, and never really will be.

And now they are a pale shadow of their former selves, with all of the talent behind such great past games long since gone.