Nintendo and 3rd Party Development: Solving the Problem

[Mr Khan]

bananaking21 said:

Mr Khan said:
ITT: we discuss how third parties are followers and not leaders.

Which explains the entire problem in a nutshell. There's not an ounce of initiative outside the big 3.

i would say that the only company other than the big 3 that has initiative is rockstar. they do have their style but they do try to push boundries, and successfully do a lot of times

Oh, plenty of developers have initiative, sure, it's the publishers that lack capacity for original thought. TakeTwo doesn't really care about how Rockstar pushes the envelope, they just see "moar GTA."