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Isn’t there some sort of anti-trust law in Japan that affects any company from buying another?
Nintendo is doing well so far with the Switch.
They’re cultivating new graduates to be part of EPD, Monolith Soft is expanding, etc.
It’ll take months (maybe years) to see all of this come into fruition.
Plus, Nintendo goes by their own philosophy and studios that are under their umbrella (or are closely affiliated with them) are going to follow suit.
If a developer doesn’t follow Nintendo’s philosophies and culture, what use can they be if Nintendo owns them? Not to mention that a developer is just that...a developer. If the people that worked on the IPs are not there..it’s not the same. Didn’t some of the main people at Rare leave said company by the time Microsoft bought them?