Is Nintendo still the best company for video games?

[senseinobaka]

Just for the record, a list of hardcore NGC titles deved or published by nintendo:

Starfox Adventures
Metriod Prime
Metriod Prime 2: Echoes
Eternal Darkness
F-Zero GX
Super Mario Sunshine
LOZ: Windwaker
Baten Kaitos: Origins
Battalion Wars
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Chibi-Robo
Geist
LOZ: Four Swrds
LOZ: Ocarina of Time Master Quest
LOZ: Twilight Princess
Odama
Paper Mario: Thousand year door
Pikmin
Pikmin 2
Star Fox Assualt
Super Smash Bros Melee
Wario World

Sure not all are great games, but these are the opposite of casual games and also paint the picture of a pretty balanced and quality library.

As for the OP... personally I enjoy the way nintendo focuses so well on the nuts and bolts of game design and theory. No other company touches their competency in high level game design and theory. Its why they are such innovators of software and by extension hardware innovators.

However, this does come at a price. Nintendo is not good at adopting new technologies like Online Play and Voice chat which MS and Sony spoiled us with. They are also not really interested in fun via violence which seems to be the modern definition of hardcore.

Also, my fav genres are platforming, action adventrues, and puzzle games... all which nintendo does better than anyone else. Well...that was until I got my grubby hands on Uncharted 2 which is the greatest Action adventure game since the last Zelda or Okami.