Ubisoft would be great and would actually be within reach cause of the similarity in game development philosophy. Ubisoft would take over the hole Rare left

they actually have some games on par with nintendo like rayman, assasins creed

Ubisoft for the west and Capcom for the east, then merge with Sega (pipe dream)

make the nintendo dreamstar and there would never be a need for 3rd party or lack of games

Did you even read what you yourself bolded? How many Pokemon games did Nintendo sell between GTA IV and GTA V? Five! How much have they sold combined? Over 50 million. AND developement costed less, so they make more profit per unit. So they sell at least as much as Take-Two's biggest IP in the same amount of time with a higher profit margin? AND they have other IP's that simply make more than any other Take-Two IP.

GTA IV & V combined sold about 50 million games last gen. V was just released and is still selling quite well. That's just the two main games on PS3/360, though. The PSP and DS titles combined for an additional 15 million or so, plus there was another PS3/360 title with about 4 million sales.

So that's roughly 70 million GTA sales in ONE generation. Tell me, did the Pokemon franchise sell 350 MILLION games last gen? Because that would be mighty impressive.

The main thing is that there's no way in hell GTA would have sold 70 million games as a Wii & DS exclusive. There's no way GTA V could sell 30 million copies on Wii U in 3 months, exclusive or not. It's not happening. Being confined to a single platform (or a single home console and a single handheld) would be MASSIVELY detrimental to Take-Two's bottom line. They would NOT allow themselves to be put into that kind of situation. Probably not even if the market was in another PS2/XB/GCN situation.

According to VGC GTA franchise sold about 140m and Pokémon about 230m (plus about 3 million from pikachu titles). Indeed, it isnt 5 to 1. Its closer to 2 to 1 (1.64 to be accurate).

Ubisoft Capcom Sega

thoughts anyone

Nintendo shouldn't acquire anything until it gets its own house in order (I.E. is consistently making profits). Then consider whether or not to expand.

Platinum and Capcom

You constructed the sentence incorrectly if that's the point you were trying to convey. Nintendo does not profit more per unit. The words you're looking for is that the individual budgets are much lower (which is then countered by it selling 3-10x the numbers of a normal Pokemon game), the games themselves are also cheaper, so you have to consider that as well.

Arguing against the monumental sales and cash brought in by GTA4 and GTA5 is very tough to do. At least you're trying.

Since their inception, sure. However, it's obvious that Pokemon peaked in its first generation, while Grand Theft Auto has never been bigger than it is right now. And GTA was massive during the PS2 era.

When you compare the two franchises over the last 10 years, or the last 15 years, they're much closer together. It's nowhere near a 2:1 split.

What if expanding through aquisitions is the strategy... as they said it was?

Disney wasnt doing awesome, used an expansion strategy and is doing great now. Point? You dont know much about management strategy, so maybe its best not to make such daring posts.