Among the big Japanese publishers, is Nintendo the least creatively risk-averse?

[Cloudman]

Well, one of their mottos back in the day went something like 'making use of withered technology' so Nintendo tries to make due with less powerful resources, or something like that. Nintendo can be seen as being very safe, but they tend to be smart with taking risks. They don't dive in to risky ideas like Sega did back in the day, and tend to take their time with new things.