Would Rare have been better off with Nintendo?

[Nuvendil]

Goatseye said:

Nuvendil said:
Probably, but not for the reason people think. Microsoft hasn't dismantled them they just haven't put effort into fixing them. If Nintendo had bought them wholesale and they had become a first party studio a la Monolith Soft, Nintendo probably woule have put effort into rebuilding them. So it's not that they would have stayed good if not for MS, it's that Nintendo would have rebuilt them while MS did not.

Nintendo wouldn't have fixed what they couldn't. Seavor (Conker creator) split from the team because he ended up not getting along with most of them;

-Stamper brothers wanted to retire with fat pockets,

-Perfect Dark team had to endure a developement hell to ship the game in the conditions they didn't like (they split after that),

-Nintendo didn't want Rare making mature games. Nintendo didn't have as much input in Rare games like people are making it out to be. 

I believe you completely missed my point.  What I was saying was people think the old Rare would still be here if Nintendo acquired them, they wouldn't, that ship had sailed.  What Nintendo would have done most likely is hire new talent and rebuilt the studio entirely.  So there would be a Rare studio, it would probably be good, and they would probably have a similar focus by design, but it wouldn't he the old Rare.