| StarOcean said: Oh god no. Neither. They're in no position to aquire any big dev right now. People are begging for Metroid and Animal Crossing on top of F-Zero and a billion other IPs Nintendo hides in the closet that isn't Mario, Pokemon, or Zelda and are getting nothing. Perhaps if Nintendo changes next gen my opinion will change, but as it stands they don't need any more IPs that they'll just sit on  |
I actually think Nintendo is more capable of it than you realize. they have the capital and I'm not sure they'd have to put it all up front anyway to do a takeover of Capcom
while it's true that Nintendo seems to be a bit behind on developing for some of their IPS (Pokemon on consoles, F-Zero, Star Fox, Metroid, etc.) they still activitely clearly try to keep all of their IPs alive.. something Capcom has been failing to do a good job at
also bear in mind that Nintendo sort of deliberately has kept an extremely small employee and team count. They could pretty easily hire more hands and put out more games even if they acquired another big video game company, they just would have to change their company mindset a bit in terms of semi abandoning the really close knit development crews.
all I know is that if Nintendo took over Capcom they surely would be capable of righting the way of some of their primary franchises (Resident Evil, Mega Man, etc)
you mention Nintendo 'sitting' on IPs, yet Capcom is much smaller and does so even more than Nintendo. there is no doubt in my mind that Capcom's IP's would be better off in another larger studios hands and Nintendo just happens to clearly be a decent fit for some of Capcom's bigger IP's (Mega Man practically is connected to the Nintendo world in terms of his start)
