Nintendo doesn't need to buy anyone.  They just need to focus on more exclusive deals and, sadly, probably follow the model of MS and Sony and help pay for development of some key titles.  I could easily see SE making a new Final Fantasy or Capcom make a new Monster Hunter for the next Nintendo system exclusively, if Nintendo helped pay for its development.

you are out of your mind if you think the most money hungery company out thewill make another mainline FF exclusive again...completey out of it.... Wada has been all about  xxpanding/growing there fanbase/presence this entire gen, just when  everybody( specifically PS fanboys) are coming to terms with SE no longer being a xxclusive..you think theyll go right behind a do another xxclusive and take a step backwards( hell you tell the uppers are just pressuring versus team to go multi0

dont even get me started on CAPCOM.

Nintendo needs to get more value out of the devs they have, not buy new ones. Given how much development muscle they already have, they're kind of in a hitting slump.

Nintendo could have gotten Final Fantasy on the Wii if they really wanted. From what I heard all they needed to do was ask.

http://www.vg247.com/2010/03/10/wada-microsoft-asked-us-to-do-ffxiii-for-360/

The system could handle their spec wank, and the Wii would have forced them to be more creative.

If Nintendo is indeed planning on appealing to western "core" gamers this gen, they could use an expansion of their western development side.

possible studios I'd like to see:

Shinen'

5th Cell

HeadStrong

Next Level

Monster

i'd prefer nothing. Generally, I'd prefer studios didn't eat other, but this isn't realistic. 

Monster games,

headstrong,

marvelous (dream come true, a new no more heroes and more crazy games from Suda51)

Shinen' (I want them to work on Fzero)

next level

Level5 (Seriously, professor layton should be enough to justify the purchase)

triAce (RPG heaven)

vainillaware (masters of the 2d, a huge genre for nintendo)

maybe more, but I still want them to focus on localize japanese games... TLS, xenoblade, Pandoras tower, ASH, Soma bringer and so on...

While I agree that Nintendo haven't been perfect with localising games, they are doing a better job with Monolith than when they were under Namco last gen for Europe (although that doesn't really say anything).

Last gen, only two Monolith games were localised for Europe, Xenosaga II and the 1st Baten Kaitos.  In fact those were done by Sony and Nintendo respectively, so I'm not quite sure whether they should count in the first place.  Scamco ensured we missed out on the other Monolith titles such as the other two Xenosagas, Baten Kaitos Origins and Namco x Capcom.  Hell, we didn't even get any of the Tales games expect Symphonia and Phantasia GBA (which were also to a degree both handled by Nintendo).

On the other hand, under Nintendo we've seen Disaster in 2008 and Xenoblade  Chronicles has been announced for a release later this year.  While I still desperately want Soma Bringer to make it to Europe, I'm fairly content in the knowledge that Xenoblade Chronicles (after Zelda SS, my most hyped game) is coming.

I don't really see your problem as I'm certain that if Nintendo had passed on the oppotunity to buy a majority share in Monolith, we wouldn't have seen Disaster and in the near future Xenoblade Chronicles coming to the West.  That's assuming that noone else would have bought them over like Atlus, where Europe would be in an equal bad/even worse situation (Atlus doesn't do European localisation as they don't have a branch here, and therefore rely on others like Nintendo, Square-Enix and for Demon Souls ironically Namco-Bandai).

You may be 'mad' at Nintendo (though NoE/A =/= Nintendo in this context), but I'm constantly breathing sighs of relief in the knowledge NoE are localising pretty much all of their games (though to be fair they did that pre-2007 as well).

FF has always been a series that focuses on graphics and 'cenematic feel' more than anything.  It was a no brainer that SE put FFXIII (and upcoming main FF games) on the HD consoles.  But in order to put it on the Wii, they'd have to create a whole new engine and graphical style.

Perhaps once Cafe comes out ,they might port FFXIII-2 and FFXIII Versus to it.  As long as it can support games on the graphical level of PS3 and allows adaptation of a similar engine.  As it stands, they had to make major changes to the engine just to get it on XBOX360.