Alternate history: Microsoft never joins the console race

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curl-6 said:

By the time Rare was sold to MS, much of the talent behind games like Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, DKC, etc had already left the building.
Their last Nintendo game, Starfox Adventures, was already a mediocre showing, and from that point on their mojo never returned.

Nintendo could have bought Rare and tried to whip them into shape, but by that point maybe they were right not to.

While I completely agree, Starfox Adventures was apparently supposed to be put more effort into, but after MS bought Rare, they just wrapped up the game to get it finished.  Basically the problems in the game are boring enemies and fighting them, which indicates they took shortcuts at late stage of the development.