Should Nintendo Buy Game Freak?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Nintendo would get very little benefit if they did.

I was trying to sort through the legalities of who owns what rights to Pokemon, and all I could tell is that it's pretty complicated. But the short answer is that Pokemon can only be released with Nintendo's blessing and that is the real thing they need. Nintendo basically controls the Pokemon IP, even if Game Freak gets most of the direct profit from it.