[KillerGremlin]

I'm sure part of what slowed Rare down to make new games was licensing. Nintendo owns licenses to all the franchises Rare worked on. And didn't Nintendo sell Rare right at the beginning of the gen, so Rare was behind with getting the development info to work with the Xbox. It seems like Rare has been a little bit more productive with the 360.

I don't think Nintendo helped too much with Rare's games except for maybe with Donkey Kong 64 and Diddy Kong Racing.