[javery]

This is why I bet they buy Nintendo at some point.

[weisser]

I hope they do. Nintendo has been pretty awful at hardware for a while now but I still love the characters.

Rare being bought by Microsoft was very unfortunate, however.

[astrange]

Rare deciding to go for the "casual" market was apparently an internal decision, like Konami's.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/12/rares-management-to-bl...

[beedogs]

It's why I hope they're broken up under antitrust law at some point.

[rangibaby]

I have been thinking that over the past couple of days too. In Japan, Disney everything is literally everywhere. How do you think that work out? Split into parks and movies?

[cronjobber]

Hey, why not just fix copyright and regain ownership of our own culture?

But the ugly truth is that we will never fix copyright. Not within our lifetimes, not even within the life of our grandchildren.

[olasaustralia]

Studio Ghibli also seems like a good bet