According to our sources inside Nintendo, Nintendo has officially sold it’s share of Rare to Microsoft. Last year, Nintendo had the opportunity to purchase the company, and refused. Rare put up the for sale sign and was looked at by both Microsoft and Activision. Microsoft won the bidding war, and Nintendo cut it’s ties with Rare. That’s what we do know.
Star Fox Adventures is still due out on September 23rd, but GBA titles like Sabre Wulf, Diddy Kong Pilot, and Banjo Kazooie are still an unknown. We are assuming that at least 1 or 2 of these are already finished, and should be released by the end of the year, if not early next year.
This announcement is said to be made official at Microsoft’s X02 Europe event in Seville, Spain on September 24th. Ironically, the day after Nintendo ships Rare’s one and only GameCube title.
We are expecting official comment from Nintendo sometime today.
