Wasn't Bioware with Microsoft ?

In the year and a half since this thread, has anybody opinions changed?

I'd want Microsoft to purchase Nintendo... then we'd get a console with an HD Super Smash Bros AND a fully functional online component for the multiplayer.

If only one:

MS: Ubisoft
Sony: SquareEnix
Nintendo: Next Level Games

If as many desired:

MS: Ubisoft, Valve, Epic games, Bioware, Bethesda, Rockstar, and Remedy.
Sony: SquareEnix, Insomniac, Kojima Production, Level 5, Quantic Dream, and Ninja Theory.
Nintendo: Next Level Games, Grasshopper Manufacture, and High Voltage Software.

I am a Nintendo fan so I would say Grasshopper Manufacture, I like their Niche made games, and working with Nintendo would make their game design even better.

Not Rare because they had bad history with Nintendo when it comes to releasing games and they always bum off Nintendo for money.

I think Microsoft should buy out more eastern devs. Realisticaly they should try to acquire

Blue Side - They make games like no other company does and MS always get some love from this studio.

Valhalla Games - Itadaki loves the Xbox and MS could get some of the most over the top games from the most over the top dev from Japan. Games from him are alway unique and being exclusive could give a lot of style to the 360.

Cave - They make Shmup like their life depends on it and even if Xbox gets no love from japanese gamers this dev seem to love making games for the Xbox. It could grow a very niche audience exclusively on XBL with all these weird cool looking shooters.

Mystwalker - I don't play jrpgs anymore (all because of Bioware and Bethesda) but a lot of people do and at the start of this gen the 360 was the place to get them... MS should've bought that studio and have them continue with the sequels of Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey.

Edit: typo

Sony: Quantic Dream, Kojima productions, any team in the present or future that has an innovative mind/approach to game development, Atlus, and all jrpg dev.

not sure how much longer i'll stick with Ninty, and pc and me are stuck together like glue.

Nintendo-Vanilla Ware.

Ummm... what?  First of all, Nintendo invested alot of money into the company when they bought a 49% stake in Rare in 1994... it's not like Rare begged Nintendo to throw a ton of money at them just for developing a few exclusive games like many 3rd parties have done over the years with other companies like Sony and M$.

Secondly, from the time Rare became a 2nd party developer for Nintendo in '94 to the time M$ bought them in late '02, they released nearly 30 games for Nintendo systems, some of which were among the biggest selling games for their respective systems like DKC for the SNES and Goldeneye for the N64.  They averaged a release output of more than 3 games a year across all Nintendo platforms, and about 2 a year for the N64 alone... no other company besides Nintendo themselves had such a frequent output of AAA games as Rare did, and to this day no other second party has come close to achieving the release output or big sales that Rare achieved.  Retro Studios is the closest thing to Rare, but they've only put out 4 games in 10 years... all of which are Nintendo IPs.

The main problem that caused and end to their relationship was that Nintendo became too controlling and demanding.  Examples of this are Nintendo insisting Rare instert Nintendo characters like Fox in an original game like Dinosaur Planet, which was originally scheduled for the N64 and rumored to be a "Zelda killer", or when Rare totally scrapped their original platformer Conker 64 and made in into Conker's BFD as a big "F-U" to Nintendo and their stereotypical "kiddy" image.

I wouldn't want Nintendo to buy Rare now only because almost none of the original team members or developers that worked on the big hits of yesteryear and made the company great are there anymore... so Rare would probably fit right in with all the other companies making casual games and shovelware for Nintendo's systems.

Sony should buy Epic, and Nintendo, if they only would get 3rd party supporty like Sony and MS, they'll be more than happy.