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

[Kai_Mao]

Nuvendil said:

SpokenTruth said:
You really don't see this type of licensing of out IPs to indie developers from either of the 3 major players or other big publishers.

Yeah, it's curious this gets brought up about Nintendo specifically.

Sony has plenty of IPs they don't do much of anything with.  No one ever said, "hey, you should reach out to Playtonics to make a new Jak and Daxter game" or something similar.  Assuming Sony kept the ownership of their IP

 

It's because Sony continues making more new IPs like The Order, Bloodborne, and, recently, Horizon. Thus, fans of PlayStation don't seem too worried about reviving old franchises. I mean, they tend to even brag about these new IPs, which is fine. Though they're doing a little revival with Crash so that's something.

Nintendo has tons of dormant IPs and they've revived several in the past several years through new games and/or through content in Smash or something. But then fans and critics also want them to develop new IPs so there's Steel Diver, Nintendoland, Codename Steam, Splatoon, ARMS, 1-2 Switch, Snipperclips, etc.