Does Nintendo own Hal Laboratories or Game Freak?

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Mr Khan on 18 August 2009

I thought they had bought out GameFreak completely a few years back, no?

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theARTIST0017 on 18 August 2009

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No you thought right, Rare was second party, 49% owned by Nintendo before being sold off to Microsoft.

yup for about 349 mill the largest ever obtained for a game developer in history

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sguy78 on 18 August 2009

I didn't know Nintendo owned 49% of Rare.

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theARTIST0017 on 18 August 2009

Nevermind, they were sold for $375 million

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JUG on 20 August 2009

Mr Khan said:

I thought they had bought out GameFreak completely a few years back, no?

Does anyone know whether this is true?

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