RARE back in the day wanted to be bought out in full by Nintendo. They asked Nintendo and the answer from Nintendo was no. Later on when MS made an offer RARE said yes.
Rumour that Microsoft is looking to buy Platinum Games and next Xbox specs rumour
This was part of a leak into the new XBox specs. Rumour leak, that's all. The original leak was on resetter but they put them all on imgur too.
https://imgur.com/gallery/i3TnTKk
Here's the summary of it all...