Which was greater at their peak, Rare or Retro?

[archbrix]

curl-6 said:

archbrix said:

By "peaked higher", do we mean over a certain time span or the highest crowning achievement from either of them?

Highest peak moment from either company? Retro with Metroid Prime on the Gamecube, by a decent margin.

But at their peak as a company, then Rare for sure. Their N64 output was arguably as predominant as Nintendo's games. Retro can't hold a candle to that many fantastic games with that much variety in a single generation.

Highest high point I meant; volume of output isn't really a fair comparison as it's much easier to pump out SNES/N64 games quickly compared to Gamecube and up.

@bolded:  I did consider that, but at the same time, developers weren't as experienced with 3D development in the N64 days and to sustain such a high quality across so many titles during the primitive 3D era was amazing.

Either way, if you meant highest high point then I guess I should have voted for Retro.  Oops.