Historically, who has been more impressive at pushing Nintendo hardware, Nintendo themselves or third parties?

[JackHandy]

Manlytears said:

Imho, RARE.

RARE.
Snes - DK2.
N64 - Jet Force Gemini.

CAPCOM.
GC - RE 4.

Wii and Switch.
Not sure...

Yup, it's Rare. When DK1 came out, our jaws were on the floor.