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>Nintendo buys companies when they're directly useful to them.
They don't even own Pokemon you dumbfuck.
>Nintendo likely wants dedicated smaller scale title developers to fill out their exclusive catalog more. Buying Monolith Soft would not do that as they are a support studio that develops large scale games when not doing that.
They want less than 50% because then they don't have to be daddy mone gibs and hand hold them. They really just want to be publisher, sit on their asses and collect checks from poor saps much like every single other successful "game" company.