Kenryoku_Maxis on 10 June 2010
Technically, they are outsourcing. A lot. More than half their games now are being made by Second Parties or Studios they recently bought.
But as for letting go of projects and just letting third parties make them, that's the one thing they should NOT do. Remember, they did that on the GameCube. And all that led to was long delays and a mixture of good and bad titles. Sure, the Capcom Zelda games were pretty good...but the Namco Star Fox and F-Zero games weren't so much.
Six upcoming games you should look into:
