I agree with ssj12. Whilst Nintendo are more definitely one of the best developers in the world they aren't the best in my opinion. Now what Nintendo are good at (which ironically is what EA are good at) is making games from a wide variety of genre's.Nintendo are just much better at it then EA from a qualitative standpoint. But to be honest I'd rather play an RPG made by a games studio that is specialised in the genre then one made by nintendo. What are nintendo the best at? Platformers and I don't think that can really be disputed from a quality over time analysis. But that does not mean they're the best at everything.
So what studio's do I like more then Nintendo? Black Isles, Valve, Troika, Irrational Games, looking glass studios. I would have put Rare on that list had you asked me during the nintendo 64 days aswell. Unfortunately a lot of my favourite studios are now defunct :(
So the thrust of my argument is this. Nintendo are great but they aren't the best at everything. And since they aren't the best at the genre's I like the most they aren't my favorite. So yeah this is all personal opinion but some of the studio's I've listed most definitely do compete with Nintendo effectively from a critical standpoint.
Anyway the question whose the best is a flawed question. It should be whose the most significant? That is most definetely Nintendo.
