It was indeed a very foolish move, but at the same time understandable.
Since that was a lot of money they needed to invest into purchasing them.
It is a complete downer because now we get no more Banjo-Kazooie on future Nintendo home consoles.
There's still hope for the handheld market, however.
Haha, awesome.
I'm going to hold off a bit on buying it once it's released, but when I do I'll be sure to share my account info with you so we can do online sometime, lol.
Haha, I see.
What version of the DS do you own?
Phat, Lite, DSi or 3DS?
Haha, no need to apologize.
That's understandable. XD
Yes, RARE pretty much got the boot from Nintendo. Nintendo only owned 49% of RARE, whereas the remaining 51% was RARE alone. RARE wanted to sell their remainder for about 300 Million, but Nintendo didn't want to pay it off. So Microsoft bought the 51%, and then Nintendo came to a decision to sell the rest of the 49% to Microsoft. So now they own full rights to the entire company.
Another reason is the low sales and high cost of later Rare games, and the decline in quality. Nintendo saw nothing in the production pipeline that was worth purchasing the rest of RARE before Microsoft bought them.
Man, I really need to play that with my brother sometime then. Sounds like a lot of fun.
Pikmin is a classic that will never get old. I'm really looking forward to Pikmin 3.
Indeed. RARE is a legend which will never be forgotten.
It's a shame Nintendo had to let them go.
LOL. I'll need to do a little research on that game. It sounds pretty interesting.
I've heard go many positive things about Portal and Portal 2. Unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity to try out those games as of yet.