@ the bolded: Hahahaa!!! God I hope this is sarcasm.

Nintendo buying Sega would be awful for all parties. Sega's best work is on PC and it wouldn't transition well to the either Nintendo console.

The people that worked at rare in the 1990's

I see you capitalized the a of "Acquire" in the title. Therefore I think you have inside information and know that Nintendo are acquiring Acquire:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquire_(game_developer)

Akiba Strip 3 on WiiU. That'd certainly get a... different crowd of people onto the console in Japan.

Let's see... Sega, Square Enix and Capcom. If they got that and the rights to Castlevania it would be awesome! But... that's a lot of things to wish for right? If I only had to choose one, I would choose Sega!

The obvious ones are Next Level, Level-5 and Sega, maybe Platinum if they are happy with W101 and Bayonetta 2. The out there options are Capcom, Konami and Square-Enix

When thinking about smaller studios, I think Nintendo should buy Hello Games and Platinum. In my opinion, No Man's Sky has some of the biggest "next gen" potential. Snatch it up, Ninty.

They should acquire many small/medium studios instead of going after big ones at this time. This would have a wider range of IPs to develop for, and room for new ones, for a very small price. So we're talking about studios like Ganbarion, Mistwalker, Treasure, PG and whatnot. This would mean more new ips and help for developing existing ones. And then just wait for Capcom/Sega/SE to go bankrupt and buy them (or their ips) when they become cheap, because that is the way they are currently heading, sadly.

Nintendo should buy out Sega, fire all of Sonic Team, then let Nintendo EAD make a Sonic game.

Nintendo should totally try and acquire Capcom, though.

I do not think Nintendo was referring to game creation companies.

Nintendo was speaking directly about their core competencies and where they lack capability. They do NOT lack capability in creating original and quality gaming content. Their titles routinely sell very well over time and price points.

However, Nintendo is lacking in a lot of areas that they will require to expand upon in relation to their new company direction and intention.

Nintendo has spoken about quality of life, health care, networking, streaming content, mobile sphere, etc. All of this requires capabilities they do not currently have.

Let's just take networking. GC/GBA gen had no networking capabilities. Nintendo at that point has virtually zero experience with mass market level networking and online gaming. Unlike MSony who have multiple divisions that have worked with this type of technology for decades.

With Wii/DS this proved to be true as their first attempt at such a network was largely dismal. It was clearly lacking in major details and multiple titles proved that it wasn't really ready for the type of scale and functionality expected from a modern gaming network.

With 3DS/WiiU those issues have been largely solved. However, Nintendo still lacks overall capacity and robustness that is clearly present on PC/PS4/Xbone such as cross game chat/video/game streaming/etc. Basically, Nintendo is still a generation behind in terms of networking capability.

This is where acquisitions come in. Nintendo needs this expertise and every company has two choices. They can build it up on their own, which is what Nintendo has been doing. This approach is nice, but it takes a lot longer. OR they can buy a company that already does it well and integrate it a lot faster. This is what companies like Google do very well.

This is what I believe Nintendo is talking about in terms of acquisitions and mergers. They intend to buy the technology competencies they are lacking in. Had they done this in terms of networking before Wii launched, we likely would never had issues with friend codes, lack of a unified account system, etc.

Very interested to see what direction this takes.

Nintendo should buy Sony.