Yes

No.
1. Who wants to buy British homosexuals?
2. The studio was already in decline
3. They considered themselves elite developers, they wanted top dollar, but Nintendo only buys studios for cheap
4. They were always too distinct and had too much of their own identity to actually be acquired by Nintendo who demands conformity.
5. Nintendo doesn't actually care about the European market as much as the Asian and American one.

>>729241009
Nah, the price was too high, they wouldn't use the IP's and the main talent behind their games were cashing out.

>>729241390
>3. They considered themselves elite developers, they wanted top dollar, but Nintendo only buys studios for cheap
This is probably the biggest reason. Nintendo prefers to build rather than Buy, and when they do Buy, it's a small and weak developer that they can influence. Rare was fine as a business partner, but nothing they wanted to own outright. If Rare came to them with a super lowball offer they might have accepted.

>>729241009
No.

Rarefags are either in denial or are extremely ignorant of the state Rare was in their last days as a Nintendo partner; their projects were in disarray and staff were leaving in droves.

Microsoft didn't buy prime Rare, they bought a fractured Rare; and today Rare is such an empty shell that calling itself Rare still might as well be identity thief.

>>729241009
Of course, why didn't Nintendo buy Rare. One word: jealousy. The green-eyed monster. The cousin of greed.