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EpicRandy said:

rapsuperstar31 said:

Can't it be both though.  Sea of Thieves can be their best game, but at the same time in a 7 year span they released 3 SNES Donkey Kong Country games, 3 Donkey Kong Land games,  2 Killer Instinct, 2 Banjo games, Ken Griffey Baseball, Blast Corps, GoldenEye, Diddy Kong Racing, Jet Force Jemini, Mickey Speedway, Donkey Kong Country 64, Pefect Dark on both N64 and GBC, and a few more Gameboy Color games.  Most of those games were bangers at the time.

the days when AAA games were made by a few 10s of people in an 18-month timespan or even less are long gone and it's not a Rare thing. If that should be how you measure studio quality today, then 100% of studios that existed in the 90s and still exist today should be only considered to have declined.

I can agree that it was easier to turn out games back than.  As great as Sea of Thieves is it isn't making or breaking the Xbox, without Rare, the N64 may have sold less than Gamecube and Nintendo might be third party right now if not for Rare keeping them going back than.  Without GoldenEye being the first major 1st person shooter on consoles to really take off, we might not have gotten the First Halo game when we got it, as there may not have been a lot of interest in the first person shooter experience at the time.