Topic: Nintendo should buy more companies!!! Why don't they?

Nintendo should check fansite forum posts to get all the best tips on how to correctly run their company. Who is in charge of running that company when gamers on a website can come up with better ideas for free? smh Nintendo, smh

I don't really understand how buying a company is better than a 2nd-party partnership...

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Buying an IP would be much cheaper than buying a company as whole. Besides, Nintendo is in better situation with making a 2nd party contract than actually taking over a company.

I want Nintendo to buy Nintendo and demote Iwata back down to game production and put a maverick hardware designer in charge of everything except software.

All of the armchair analysts in one thread again! Yay! We needed another one of these.....

I also find it amusing that people are talking about massive acquisitions by Nintendo with their arguments being about what it means for the Wii U. As if the turnaround is that rapid that it'd make any difference. If Nintendo did buy Capcom or some other studio that was "on the rocks" then they'd spend the first year shaking the place up. The first real valuable content would be a good four years down the road. By that point it'd be content for the Wii U's successor not the Wii U.

And frankly I don't really like it when companies gobble up their competitors like that. I like the way that if one of the three or so platforms falls flat for one generation there are IPs that drift around the place. I like that there are a lot of studios who produce cross-platform games. I don't want the gaming industry to get to a point where you have to buy Microsoft for Batman, Sony for Assassin's Creed and Nintendo for Street Fighter. Bugger that.

I would like Nintendo to acquire other companies just to sought out Licence Issues. Buy Sega, and we may have a Dreamcast VC, or buy back Rare to get all of those classic N64 titles.

All of the armchair analysis analysts in one thread!

Because the people all leave at least outside Japan. (Those people who made Metroid Prime don't work for Retro any more).

Everything is a troll topic if you want to look at it that way

Cing went belly up because their games didn't sell. They all had heavy niche appeal, and they relied on XSEED for most localization. It wouldn't be a worthwhile acquisition for Nintendo. Lastly, I don't think Cing ever published their own games, so they don't even have IPs available for Nintendo.

Now they should make greater strides to acquire more western developers. Not for IPs, that would require buying out a publisher, but for talent. Nintendo only has 2 western developers they work with to make new full games: Retro and Next Level, that's a problem as it limits who they can appeal to. Monster and NST have mostly focused on side roles.

In terms of publishers, there aren't many that make sense for Nintendo to acquire. Many are simply just so large that it would cost an exorbitant amount of money or require a lot of restructuring. I'd say Level-5 would make a lot of sense though. They are only a few hundred employees, so it wouldn't be a Ridley sized acquisition. But at the same time, they'd get their hands on a wealth of RPG IPs, as well as developers well versed in the genre.

That might be true. The first games might be released after four years or so. The company that I linked went bust in 2010, that means if it had been acquired the first games might have been released and others announced already. I am not saying that this would heal the Wii Us issues, but I think that more games coming out wouldnt be that bad - and thats nintendo's current problem as far as I have observed. Buying a company today might not mean anything for today but when the wii u successor is released it might mean something then...

Like it or not, developers are going to be acquired. Think of microsofts latest minecraft buy out. I dont really for the minecraft company but I know that the more developers a company owns the more games can potentially appear on their system and exclusive games are very important in the console as they can make people lean towards one system or another.

How about someone should close this thread? Yeah, that's a good idea, because we've seen plenty of these before.

Nintendo's aim is to keep it's money, and grow it's business...not lose it to stupid acquisitions. It has all the IP's it needs...doesn't need to buy more. It can't even put out all of it's IP's in games, as it is now. But, I do think they are smart to have the crossovers, that's a very smart usage of money. That, and paying for niche games. It makes their console more attractive.

Nintendo going first party for PS4, Goku for Smash, Smash for Vita... it would totally print money. I think "omfg&jclolrotfl" sums it up.

I don't get the hate for EA. Microsoft is like a cancer with that.

It's better to buy IP than company that goes bankrupt. Although there is one "misstep" Nintendo did, and that was not buying Atlus - I mean, they have buttload of franchises that Nintendo could use and they are capable studio

Some of the best parts of Nintendo were bought. (HAL / Intelligent Systems).

All the good 2nd party partnerships that happened have ended - Factor 5 / Rare.

Actually Intelligent was always a subsidiary of Nintendo. The founder himself was hired by Nintendo to do 1st party projects.

Also, Rare was also originally owned (49%) by Nintendo. They were not 2nd party.

because it cost money... sorry I wasn't sure how much information you know on this subject

The way Intelligent Systems is set up wouldn't have happened if it wasn't independent initially. He would have been employed straight to an internal part of Nintendo.

49% owned is second party. Not a controlling stake. If it was first party then it wouldn't have gone to MS.