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

[DonFerrari]

pikashoe said:

ResilientFighter said:
Yeah they lack innovative IPs and only a few new ones surface every decade

Well that's just factually incorrect. Last 10 years we've had xenoblade series, splatoon series, labo, arms, codename steam, wonderful 101, pushmo series, steel diver, art academy, Dillon rolling western, ever oasis, snipperclips, octopath traveller, sushi striker.

Next year has daemon x machina, town.

I didn't name everything here. The quality of some of these games is debatable but they cover a wide variety of genres and gameplay styles. I think we need to put to rest this nonsense that Nintendo don't make new ips.

But then most if not all of those games were made with token change and not big budget, so the risk was very low.