Soundwave on 30 January 2014
From a gamer POV not even close. They are still a far more insular Japanese company than Nintendo was even in the 1990s, when Yamauchi gave NOA far more authority to do things like go ahead and make say ... GoldenEye.
Today, Retro Studios would probably be laughed out of Nintendo's offices if they dared to ask to work on some off the wall project not based on a pre-existed Nintendo Japanese IP.
1990s Nintendo > modern Nintendo in almost every way from a gaming POV IMO. The only thing this iteration of Nintendo has over 90s Nintendo is EAD Tokyo.
