Monster Hunter, Mega Man, and Ace Attorney is all I'm thinking of, and for good reasons.

MH is doing exceptionally well on the 3DS plus MH4 U comes out in 2015.

They are working on Dai Gyakuten Saiban for the 3DS, so we need that one.

And Mega man is in Smash, we need him in smash. 

Everytime one of these threads happen everyone starts assuming Nintendo is going to buy them. I doubt the company is ready to drop billions for Capcom in their current state.

I think people are focusing on the IPs that are regular on Nintendo. It's not the MH's and Mega Man's that make Nintendo need this. It's the Resi's, the Street Fighter's, the DMCs. Things no one thinks about in association with Nintendo. That's where Nintendo would benefit most.

I think spemanig signature fits quite well:

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence." - C.S. Lewis

I would advise you to grow out of cliché.

It will probably be an outside company trying to get into gaming. Would be surprised if either Nintendo or MS make the purchase.

The talented developers have left. Nintendo will not buy.

THIS! Other smaller ones from capacom can help in teh future and they should be pocket money shoping for nintendo with the smaller ones.

We aren't saying they will. They should. And Capcom is not worth "billions." Not when last year they where worth less than 200m.

Microsoft is probably the only one with means to do so, and even though most of their games have been sucking lately, this would be a huge win for any of the three console publishers.

Sure, there's Street Fighter, Resident Evil, etc, but they'd also be getting a huge catalog of other great IPs like Devil May Cry, Breath of Fire, Final Fight, etc.

I've always thought that the way to make Yakuza popular in western territories is to make a western Yakuza. Final Fight with a good story tacked to it, open world, and Yakuza gameplay, Sega could add a demo of the most recent Yakuza game on each disc, so the people play it see that it has similar gameplay with a Japanese story. Might do well to push sales.

Yes that's a possibility, someone buying up 100% shares, but for that to happen people have to sell them.  The most likely scenario is a single entity owning a 51% or more stake in them.  Which is very different from let's say, Yahoo buying Flickr.  Yahoo bought Flickr and attemped to integrate them into their eco system.  Someone owning 51% of Capcom can just be a shareholder yelling for more profits.