[General Discussion] If you were a game company CEO...

Shenmue isn't R.E.A.L.. It's F.R.E.E.

Anyway, I wouldn't want to be in the hardware business. Too much risk involved.

Buying a second company for assistance in development, it would probably be Bioware (Assuming Nintendo isn't a choice, since they are easily the best developers in the world.). Not only do they have tons of experience making quality RPGs, but they even have experience in kick-ass action games, with tons of dark humor (See MDK and MDK2). Blizzard is another good choice too, but I'd rather work with a company that makes new IPs, rather than recycling old ones.

My ultimate idea for a game would be a space-based MMORPG that is actually good. Making your own ships, and space-based dogfights, with a hundred worlds or so of a gigantic size to explore. Many different races and languages, as well as technology and powers. Admittedly, Blizzard will probably do this when (And I am 99% sure they will) they make Universe of Starcraft (World of Starcraft doesn't have that kind of scale). But Bioware looks to be making my dream a reality, albiet in offline form, but that experience could be handy for the creation of an MMO with these features.

Jam it back in, in the dark.