Nintendo blocked the xbla goldeneye actually.
Legend goes they said to the other profit parties they get 50% or its a dealbreaker. And only the japanese nintendo boss threatened bad relations with activision to hault the release. 3 pies needing dividing, would leave M$/rare to settle on 25-30% leaving activsion to also be left with 20-25% or so and since M$'s subsidiary Rare did the work to upgrade the title, they couldn't stomach that deal.
That was before it was ever a chance to be split onto nintendo arcade release the 50% thing, then I think they tried sweeten it for nintento by saying rare would port it to wii VA if a fairer price percentage was in place for all.
Pretty gay, I personally think they should renegotiate (since COD games have been on wii since then) and do a split release. Rare does the port to nintendo. Nintendo gets 70% of sales on it's VA, while rare/activision gets 15% each. XBLA releases and M$ gets 70% and rare/activision get 15% each.
Its a SWEET deal for the platform companies then, and I think the right holders and the porter would be OK with getting millions of dollars from the (easily) million copies that would be bought.