Why doesn't Nintendo let estabished indie devs borrow their IPs ?

[Alkibiádēs]

Bman54 said:

Alkibiádēs said:

Good-Feel has 93 employees and Next Level games has 79 employees. That's way too big to be considered an indie developer. 

Number of employees has nothing to do with whether they're an indie developer or not. If they're a company that is not owned by anyone, and is run INDEPENDENTLY, they're an indie dev.

Good-Feel and Next Level Games are quite clearly not independently run.

And your definition is wrong as well. Every company is owned by someone. Even indie developers need to listen to the demands of publishers. Using your definition Nintendo is an indie developer.