Nintendo could buy Epic games serveral times over with just the cash they have lying around.....

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Wright said:
Well... and if they can, why don't they do it?

It's the same thing as why don't they make the Unreal Engine 3 run on the 3DS?  I can never find a sufficient answer to this question given that the 3DS can run an equally as good (or better) engine perfectly fine.