Sage line 50 - Consolidation (again!)

Hi all,

Firstly, apologies if it seems that I have asked this question before.

I need to produce accounts for 5 different companies and also a consolidated group set of accounts.

Apparently Sage line 50 will do this for me.
However, when I visit the Sage website it could not find a mention of nominal ledger consolidation in Line 50.  (Altho' it does give the option of buying a multi-company licence).

Sage promote Line 200 as a consolidation package (far more expensive!!).

(Conspiracy theory ... they would prefer you to buy line 200 and undersell the functionality of line 50)

I guess my question is:
1. Can Sage 50 provide individual and group accounts.  Similarly I would expect to be able to product Balance Sheets (etc) for an individual company or a consolidated view.

2. Is my conspiracy theory right?

Thank you and good night!