Does it make sense to acquire Moon games Studio ? I heard they're formed from a collective of independant devs, nothing centralized really.

Seeing as they're also popular with the PC market in general, I doubt working exclusively with nintendo is a solution here.

Shin'en is just 5 guys.

And yeah they work absolute black magic with the results they manage to get from Nintendo's hardware; Iridion 3D on GBA, Jett Rocket on Wii, Nano Assault on 3DS, and Fast Racing Neo on Wii U for example.

The Wii games are their biggest success in pulling wizardry. Not just the hardware but they had a size limit of 40MB. I don't even know of a PS1 or Saturn game that small. I think even the early 90s arcade ports on those systems are 100MB at least lol.

Yeah Jett Rocket on 40MB is just insane, and it looks better than almost anything else on the platform and runs at 60fps to boot.

If Nintendo owned Shin'en then we just might get them to finally make a new F-Zero.

Where they've shined the most so far has been with Punch-Out on Wii, and now Luigi's Mansion 3, which might even be their best selling game. :)

I was talking purely from a technical perspective. Jett and Fast Racing on Wii are more impressive considering both the hardware and size limit if only 40MB.

How they fit these in with 40MB is just insane. Just to give perspective even a Neo Geo game on PS1 or Saturn is still over 100MB and that is 2D.

We know Next Level Games are great at action-adventure games as seen in their stint with Luigi's Mansion, and from what I've heard about the Mario Strikers games they're also adept at soccer games, so what other genres have they shown themselves to be good at?

That's an absurdly efficient level of optimization. If companies put half the efford in optimizing like they did, we wouldn't fill multiple terabyte memories with only a handful of games,

They doomed themselves with their wish to branch out to the PS4 and mobile. Nintendo doesn't buy studios that aren't aboard with them, and AlphaDream clearly wasn't. Their remakes of older Mario & Luigi games were a means to maintain cashflow while working on games for non-Nintendo platforms.

That kind of reminds me of Game Freak's attempts to branch out from Pokemon by releasing multiplatform games. I'm not sure if GameFreak being owned by Nintendo in its entirety would solve their issues, but then again, anything related to the ownership of Pokemon's IP is a headache waiting to happen.