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Frogger on 03 March 2014
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Soundwave said:

The James Bond IP is actually available for sale (Activision relinquished the rights). Capcom is not, and Nintendo is the last company that would pay what for Capcom to begin with (MS would buy them first if they were ever available, followed by EA, followed by Activision).

Buying out such a large company is simply not in Nintendo's business rule book, they don't operate that way, and people need to wake up and realize Nintendo *values* being a small company employee wise. 

Nintendo had Resident Evil exclusivity for a few years and it didn't save the GameCube, so whats it supposed to do now when its a tired shadow of its former self anyway?

Nintendo needs IP that Western teenagers and adults relate to, not more B-tier Japanese franchises. If you're going to spend that kind of money you could get considerably better bang for your buck in any number of ways. Paying billions of dollars for Capcom and then limiting them to a tiny userbase and hoping that Capcom's old franchises can somehow increase your console share is grossly irresponsible IMO. It would more likely backfire and leave a huge chunk of Nintendo's cash reserves (which is about their only saving grace right now) gone. 

Bond would be one I'd look at right now. Game of Thrones might be another IP that could buy Nintendo real credibility with older audiences in the West perhaps. I'd look at signing a deal with Disney/Marvel too to perhaps make games based on the Avengers/Iron Man movies, much like Nintendo had a deal with LucasArts in the 90s for exclusive Star Wars games. These three combined would buy Nintendo real credibility with core consumers in the West for probably well under $100 million so long as the quality of the games behind them was kept high. 


Capcom isn't, but that doesn't mean Capcom can't be acquired. It's worth a fraction of what it was even in 2009. Resident Evil on the gamecube of one franchise. This would be everything. By rebooting the franchises that are shadows of their former selves, they can maintain a steady stream of quality games with a reliable fanbase.

Nintendo DOES need IPs that Western teens can relate to. Like I said, James Bond would be smart. Game of Thrones would also be smart. A deal with Marvel would be excellent too.

I know that Take-Two would never let Nintendo outright purchase them, but I think it would be beneficial for them to buy a small piece of their company. If Nintendo pays like $200 mil for like 12% of their stock, they could guarantee all their games while securing some exclusives here and there. It's not an all out purchase, which Nintendo has the funds to do, but it is something they would benefit from.

That being said, the GTA brand is huge. Everything T2 owns is huge. If Nintendo made an agressive bid at T2 and won, that would gamechanging. A lot of people think that Microsoft would take an active bid to compete, but with the current unhappiness Microsoft investers seem to gave for the Xbox brand, dropping billions of the companies dollars on what inverstors consider to be an unsuccessful brand wouldn't go over well. And in Sony's case, the last thing they want to be doing while restructuring their failing company is make a multibillion dollar investment. That leaves EA, whom Take-Two already denied. Activision and Ubisoft would be the only bidding competitors Nintendo would really have to worry about. If Nintendo could convince T2 to allow the purchase, Nintendo would be, quite literally, unstopable. Of course, they'd need more compitent people to manage the entire thing, but GTA VI exclusive to the Wii U? Give me a break. Throw in the towels.