Nintendo plans for growth include acquiring dev companies

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Xxain said:

SAguy said:

Retro was founded in an alliance with Nintendo. They were always going to make exclusive games for nintendo consoles. Thats the whole reason for their existence, make Nintendo games.

I mean if it's not a stupidly big purchase why not? Sony and MS have been buying way bigger companies for awhile now. Biggest purchase I see for them is something like level 5 tbh.

Making games exclusive to Nintendo Consoles is not the issue being addressed here; Obviously they're owned by Nintendo. Why has Retro not been given an opportunity to make a original IP? Have they not earned it? When will Retro go beyond grunt worker for Nintendo IP's? When will they have the opportunity to grow their games portfolio beyond established Nintendo IP's 

What's the problem here, exactly?

Every time they tried to make new IP it just didn't work. They cancelled everything but Metroid Prime at the beginning of the studio's life. 

They wanted to make the Metroid Prime games. When they didn't, they wanted to make Donkey Kong games. Recently, Metroid Prime 4 was pitched to Nintendo by them. They're not being forced to work on Nintendo IPs by anyone. They want to. Why is this a problem?