Disney buying Nintendo would be good for getting hands on the classic games and so on. It'd just completely ruin any future products.

Not necessarily. Disney kept the creative teams in place at Pixar and Marvel.

Why not just buy Metroid Prime Trilogy and play it on Dolphin?
And what became of LucasArts?

Did they even really exist anymore? It's a serious question, they don't appear to have been particularly active even before Disney bought them.

AFAIK Disney fired everybody and canceled all the games that were in production.

Well, at least the thread's title wasn't "Disney bought Nintendo and plan on releasing Mario and Zelda on GOG."

But no, they shouldn't. There should be as many companies as possible and not just getting fewer and bigger. We really don't need an even bigger Disney.

That is a good point, they were sort of petering out. The Monkey Island Special Editions were even outsourced, right?

Never put all your eggs in one basket. Disney already own a multitude of beloved properties. Sadly Bob Hoskins passed on last year and wouldn't be available to reprise his role as Mario Mario.

Yeah, Disney is already a katamari of intellectual properties, rolling around and absorbing everything. As a childhood Nintendo fan, I really want Nintendo to remain separate. I don't care that they aren't what they were, I'd still rather they sit in a corner by themselves doing weird stuff, rather than be part of the all consuming Disney giant.

I would feel fucking terrible about it.

Fully against this.

What Disney likes to do with IP's these days is milk them for everything they are worth. Look at Marvel, we are almost at the point (or there already) of theatres getting over-saturated with comic book movies that they have lost there appeal for a lot of people (and DC hasn't even entered the arena yet).

Plus a Star Wars movie every year I feel could diminish the franchise. Look how big the Star Wars brand was built with just three movies (before the prequel trilogy even existed), with new movies every year it kind of takes away from majesty that is Star Wars.

I know I'm not quite explaining it right but hopefully it will make sense.

^This. Gamecube is one of my favorite consoles, with a lot of good games, difficult to find them though. MPTrilogy is really pricey on Amazon though :o(
We are not going to see these here I am afraid.

From what I can tell they were already winding down before that point. I don't see any games on the wiki page that were actually in production at the time and the previous 10 years were rather slow.

I'm guessing that it was probably going to happen eventually as they were already outsourcing games to other development houses to write.

Mergers and acquisitions are a convenient time to get rid of employees as everybody expects a course correction.
I'm not sure, but that's probably correct, I see they outsourced some other stuff to EA and those projects continued after Disney acquired LA.
I'm not sure how much more damage it could do than the prequel trilogy.

Hell no.

If Disney were to acquire Nintendo, they could have Nintendo tackle their LucasArts IP instead of farming it out to studios like Electronic Arts. Imagine a Shigeru Miyamoto designed Day Of The Tentacle sequel.