Nintendo didn't really have a say in the sale of Rare, because they only had a 49% stake in the company. The Stamper brothers had the remaining 51% and, once they'd got Microsoft interested in buying, the outcome of the ensuing bidding war was pretty much a foregone conclusion.
@Matt_Barber Actually the Stampers wanted/expected to sell to Nintendo but Nintendo didn't bother so they looked for other buyers and a bidding war happened between Activision and Microsoft. Nintendo did make a bid once others were interested but it was a half arsed low ball.
@jump I'm not sure why they'd have expected that though, given that Nintendo hardly ever buy out their partner developers. On the rare occasions that they do, it's usually Retro/Monolith situations where they'd probably go under rather than bidding wars in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
They did, I suppose, acquire Next Level Games earlier this year though - presumably before they made any overtures in the direction of Redmond - so maybe they're learning?
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