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7/5/2025, 3:42:37 AM
>>714541795
>>714541842
Nintendo denied them until they reverse engineered the SNES and they shat bricks and bought 24% of their company. They later bought 49% and sat on it for 4 years while giving them money for some things and shorting them for others. They rightfully were asking a generous amount they needed to do all the shit Nintendo wanted them to do but Nintendo didn't budge. They offered then to sell shares of the company for a generous amount to Nintendo so that they could actually own them and they still refused. They put a clause in their buyout contract that gave Nintendo first dibs to counter bid in case another buyer showed up.
Enter Activision/THQ, and Nintendo panicked and got in a bidding war with them. They got the final bid and were slated to own Rare until microsoft came in last moment and threw a ridiculous amount more which Nintendo shyed away from since they just wanted to cheaply micromanage a powerhouse at 49% but now couldn't and only had fucking gamecube.
>>714542367
The stampers wanted out of Rare. They still wanted to make games, they just realized in order to make your own games "the world doesn't have" you cannot go working for companies who do nothin but make the same game over and over. They would have fallen the same fate as Retro since that's the only reason they bought Retro really. They would have given them metroid, DK and starfox because as history shows us they only give a fuck about mario and Zelda. They even had Rare turn Starfox into fucking Zelda because that's how much they cared about it.
>>714541842
Nintendo denied them until they reverse engineered the SNES and they shat bricks and bought 24% of their company. They later bought 49% and sat on it for 4 years while giving them money for some things and shorting them for others. They rightfully were asking a generous amount they needed to do all the shit Nintendo wanted them to do but Nintendo didn't budge. They offered then to sell shares of the company for a generous amount to Nintendo so that they could actually own them and they still refused. They put a clause in their buyout contract that gave Nintendo first dibs to counter bid in case another buyer showed up.
Enter Activision/THQ, and Nintendo panicked and got in a bidding war with them. They got the final bid and were slated to own Rare until microsoft came in last moment and threw a ridiculous amount more which Nintendo shyed away from since they just wanted to cheaply micromanage a powerhouse at 49% but now couldn't and only had fucking gamecube.
>>714542367
The stampers wanted out of Rare. They still wanted to make games, they just realized in order to make your own games "the world doesn't have" you cannot go working for companies who do nothin but make the same game over and over. They would have fallen the same fate as Retro since that's the only reason they bought Retro really. They would have given them metroid, DK and starfox because as history shows us they only give a fuck about mario and Zelda. They even had Rare turn Starfox into fucking Zelda because that's how much they cared about it.
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