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For the cost of a publisher the size of Square Enix, Nintendo could produce over 100 new development studios and finance a full generation worth of projects for the Wii; at the end of this they (probably) would have produced more important games for the generation than Square Enix could provide.

Buying a developer/publisher doesn't make sense unless they're dramatically underpriced and their corporate culture already matches your own.