I'd say Nintendo should NOT buy Sega, but if Sammy plans to dissolve Sega, Nintendo should put a bid in for IP rights, and claims to ownership of all previous titles. Those are the only two assets that Nintendo could make use of.

On another note, a purchase of Konami or Square-Enix would be seen as a lot more strategically viable option. I doubt Konami is in a position to be bought out, since their gambling machines provide a solid enough base for revenue, but if Square finds itself sliding any further down, Nintendo would be the most likely of the 3 to have enough funds for an outright takeover (I base this on Sony having junk status credit rating and Microsoft heading into uncertain waters with Windows 8 and the Surface).

Has Hip Hop Gamer ever been right? About anything?

If Nintendo does buy Sega, i wonder how many people would be pissed off at Nintendo....Nintendo needs some more big Studio's anyway, all they have is Retro Studio's and a growing company Monolith Soft.. but the outrage will be funny as. lol

I think Nintendo are in a better position to buy Platinum Games.

if Nintendo bought any company there would be masive meltdowns.  They got B2 as an exclusive and the internet went crazy, imagine Nintendo owning all of a companies ip's; your bound to get a bunch of people withing their respective cult following to go nuts over it.

Sega would be a good buy only if it's cheap. Nintendo has enough cash to buy any software maker and picking up one might be a good idea. But Sega isn't a particularily great fit because its games overlap with Nintendo's. Do people really want a Mario, a Donkey Kong Country and a Sonic year after year? I think if they were to buy someone, it should be either for more production capacity and talent - like Platinum Games - or for complimentry IPs, like Square-Enix or Activision. Square could probably benifit from Nintendo's ownership and streamline their production and focus a little more on fun games and not (quite so much) dramatic visuals. Activision would give Nintendo a powerful western presence. Sega...it really doesn't ad more to Nintendo than what they already have.

this is an interesting point, i wonder if the SEGA rumor is being fueled by this rumor

No wonder SEGA went down the crapper ever since the start of this gen.

They used to be Clover Studios.

So Okami a Zelda like gae that when it came out some people thought it was the best zelda like game released in a long time.  (Including zelda games) and Viewtiful Joe, another critically aclaimed gameplay franchise.

Yeah, I think it's good to have in the mind while talking about these sort of things... Weird only you thought it interesting :p