Hey at least in the future if Acclaim wants to try crawling back to Nintendo, Nintendo could say something like "Remember X years ago and what you said? What are you going to do to let us say yes, we'll let you develop games for X system?" (whatever the next gen system is)
*Sound familiar
*cough Square*
But I won't be missing Acclaim. All the games they've made for the 'Cube I never really liked or wanted.