Platinum Games are developers... damn good ones

Nintendo has opted to publish Bayonetta 2 (i.e. fund the development and retail release expenses). SEGA is also involved in that somewhere.

If Platinum Games were to buy Darksiders, then they would be free to develop another game in the line but where they find a publisher may restrict whether that is multiplatform or not.

They've got God of War, which this game copied. Theres no need. 

They dont need the devs, just the rights. Most of the companies were sold relatively cheap at liquidated prices.

alright ninendo you fund games no other publishers are willing to do so it's your chance step in and rescue darksiders (mainly so that i can see fanboy's suffer)

Sony should buy Darksiders and Vigil. Or Microsoft but they are too busy wasting money.

Someone needs to buy this IP! Nintendo could really need another western studio, aside from Retro, so buying Vigil and making a sequel to Darksiders would be a great way in doing so. DO IT!!!

Why doesn't Nintendo just buy them out for crying out loud. They probably could be had for a very low cost. 

Maybe if they were more proactive with investment in Western studios we wouldn't be sitting with software droughts for every system they release.

For some reason, Darksiders and Bayonetta sound like a good combination. No, not in the sense of a cross-over, but that the developing teams should compliment each other. I hope Nintendo don't end up as the publishers of Darksiders, as Darksiders alone isn't enough to make me buy a Wii U or other Nintendo console, but if that's the only option I wouldn't begrudge them keeping the franchise alive.

Vigil was appearently shuttered by the one who was in charge of the sale, it was a one shot for development teams since they need to get paided and they will not get paid by the bank in charge of the sell off. Platinum has contacted them to see if some of them wanted to work at Platinum. The IP will go for cheap. The cheapest IP in the first sales went for a little over 500k, which probally indicate the starting bid was specified as 500k. So the new starting bid will be a lot lower than that in the second sale so someone will buy it.

As zarx pointed in another thread, those 500k are not a real indication of the real price of the IP. The reason is that the buyers were Crytek, who are developing Homefront 2 for them and, given their situation, THQ probably owed them several pays. So those 500k could be the real pricew of the IP minus the money THQ owed to Crytek (more or less).

OT: While I'd like to see the story going on with the other 2 horsemen, I'll go against the rest and say that I don't really like the idea of Platinum being in charge of them.

Mind you, I know they are a bunch or very talented and very good developers, but even though their games have some resemblance to Darksiders, there are many more things that set them apart: the genre (action/hack'n'slash vs action/adventure), the pacing, the art style, etc.

I'm not sure a Darksiders game developed by Platinum would feel and play like the other two previous games.