Why can't other 2nd party Nintendo devs ever compete with RARE?

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episteme said:

You only needed teams of 10-20 people to create SNES or N64 games.

 

Wait, you think that Nintendo has only one second-party developer?

Studios like Game Freak, HAL or Camelot are second-party.

Game Freak is technically a third-party that works with a franchise Nintendo owns by virtue of The Pokemon Company.