Nintendo to Acquire Next Level Games

[DonFerrari]

VideoGameAccountant said:

DonFerrari said:

Don't think it would be impossible for Nintendo to buy the company for 0 dollars but freeing the current owners of all debt, but since I didn't look at the numbers even that may be to much money to be worth.

Nintendo would still have to pay their creditors. It wasn't a massive amount of money but it was still quite a lot for not that much gain. 

At the same time, they probably weren't going to keep the Mario and Luigi games going since they were doing poorly after Dream Team. It would make more sense to absorb the employees and put them working on Mario projects (as they are familiar with the IP). 

I do agree. My point was just that sometimes it can be worth to buy a company in debt, you can pay almost nothing to owners and just have to pay debts (and sure that will always depend on how much debt and potential profit in the future there is).