Should First Parties outsource more?

[Joelcool7]

For years Nintendo , Microsoft and Sony have been creating new franchises. Many of these new franchises take up development resources of the first party developers and publishers. This leads to older franchises and some newer franchises being forgotten for years sometimes generation's and in the odd case forever.

Now I know many Nintendo fans did not like the Donkey Konga series or the StarFox:Assualt video game. But I myself enjoyed both titles I also like Blinx and some of Microsoft's third party collaborations. Recently the news was broken that Microsoft may be laying off Rare's entire art team though Microsoft says the lay offs are exagerated it is still a big deal.

This got me wondering will we ever see a true Conker sequel or how about a Banjo Threeie, or BlastCorps2 etc...etc... Also with Pikmin its been rumoured to be in development for ages. Or Custom Robo or any of Sony's many franchises. Will we ever see these franchises again?

For years I have wondered why Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony would allow some franchises to die. When Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony could out source these games. Lets face it other then Rare does Microsoft have a single studio that specializes in platformers? Could any of their studio's give us a great Conker or Banjo title?

But if first parties looked outside of their internal developers they could revive and restore many franchises to their prior greatness. If not to their prior greatness they could at least give fans games for their franchises rather then allowing the franchises to die.

So what do you think should first parties out source more? Microsoft out sources alot buying exclusive rights to third party IP's rather then building their own. But so far they have been reluctant to out source any of Rare's IP's. Nintendo has out sourced F-Zero, Donkey Kong and StarFox with alot of success. Sony outsources abit too.

So should first parties  outsource more IP's to third parties?