12th December 2003, 5:03 PM
To my knowledge, Rare never publically said they wanted to leave Nintendo. They had a very amicable split-up seeing as Nintendo could have kept all of those licenses so I doubt things were bad between them. It was more that Rare wanted Nintendo to purchase them outright, but Nintendo didn't think they were worth the asking price so they sold their shares to MS, and MS bought the rest of the outstanding shares.
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