so nintendo bought this monolith software company that apparently makes a couple of RPG games.

i haven't the faintest clue what games they make, so i checked out xenosaga on IGN.

got some pretty good reviews!  

anybody have any ideas what kind of games they might be developing currently?  and why nintendo wanted them badly enough to actually buy them from Namco?

xenosaga is really cool and they are a good studio to capture!!! definately good move by nintendo but I still think camelot would have been a better idea.

This studio also produces the series Baten Kaitos. Very good!

 Or namco wanted to get rid of them, problems with the devs some distanced them selfs from the series some just left.  Sales have not met expectations.

ps - no proof that monolith owns xenogears.

I agree, I would have liked to see a game like Golden Sun in 3D... *drools* This is just a dream though...

For the moment they are doing Disaster: Day of Crises. They were also a part of the development of Baten Kaitos.

 That's just childish fanboy. Regardless they own rights to xenogears or not, Nintendo got more capable developers can only be good to them.

As a guess ...

Nintendo needed an internal developer who could boost their ability to deliver quality RPGs on a regular basis; at the same time Namco wanted to lower the number of internal developers producing RPGs because their RPGs have never been that financially successful. One company probably heard about the other company's desire and made a move that was in both of their best interests.

Thats just facts you fool. Namaco wanted a huge rpg franchise to do millions to be their FF, xenosags failed bad.

^^ 

The most likely scenario.