HappySqurriel on 12 June 2008
Buying Rare was one of the biggest mistakes Microsoft made in their entry to the market. By the time the deal was announced Rare was already (well) past their prime, and took far too long to produce far too few games which didn't live up to previous quality standards; as you can see this pattern has continued to this day being that Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo were announced before the Gamecube launched and were finally released on the XBox 360.
I wouldn't be too surprised to see Microsoft sell Rare off because of how unimportant they are to the success of the XBox ...
