After Donkey Kong Country released, Nintendo knew their goose was cooked. It started a string of absolute classics by Rare, completely mogging anything Nintendo was putting out at the time. To combat this, heading into the gamecube, Nitendo held a TOP SECRET meeting to kneecap Rare and put Nintendo back on top. Miyamoto, Iwata-san, Yamauchi were all present and the decision was made to turn the very promising Dinosaur Planet into a shitty Star Fox game and the rest is herstory.