Is Nintendo grooming/testing developers for possible purchase?

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Maybe they got the Fatal Frame developers from Tecmo and Next Level games is now a second party studio for them but who knows. If they do go for Platinum, I think they would want the IP rights that Sega might have (With MS keeping Scalebound.) I think Itagaki and the Valhalla studio is in real dire straights after Devils Third comes out, then we will see if the become exclusive to Nintendo. Others say Capcom and Crytek right now but I doubt Nintendo will get them as they tend to just get single dev teams and not publishers.