that's an absurd take. Rockstar has only produced a handful of elite cakes with a massive team, are they not an elite game studio? volume isn't in question here. 3 elite cakes produced by a tiny studio is elite. braid, the witness, and ootss is an elite catalog of indie games. don't let your hate of the man blind you.

I don't know the man, let alone hate him. But after reading the comments here and looking up his career, it certainly sounds like the teams he was part of built elite things, while he speaks as though he single-handledly built elite things - there's quite some difference there.