They are not "unable" to do it, it's to speed up the creation of systems when their tool will be mature enough.
…except that unless the tools are already mature enough, nothing of the kind will happen. And there's absolutely nothing to suggest that the tools are mature. Or even exist. If they did and were, CI¬G would have put on a PR spectacle the likes of which this planet had never seen. So the only alternative is that the external partner simply has a capability that CI¬G themselves lack.
A third-party consultant does not create a new studio out of nowhere
on a flimsy promise of being able to do things later. They do it on a contract
now of being able to do things
now. If CI¬G had this ability themselves, they would be doing it. They aren't. They can't. So they turn to their long-term trusted partners who have repeatedly proven themself able to do the things CI¬G are unable to do. That is literally the only way for this to speed things up: by letting an infinitely more capable set of designers and programmers take over the development of something CI¬G has failed to make any progress on for a decade. It is the only way for it to make sense that CI¬G hasn't already sped up internally using some fancy new tools at their disposal. It is the only reason why they'd need Turbulent's help in this case, as with pretty much every other case we've come across.
“Unable” is CI¬G's company motto, whether they like it or not.
CIG have failed to outsource at their beginning when they were using common tools.
No, they didn't They outsourced just about everything at the beginning. The problem was that they had zero competence in spec writing and no idea what they wanted. It wasn't a failure of outsourcing, and it had nothing to do with tools — it was simply management being a bunch of toddlers.
It's not how it works. SC need ALL tools/pipeline/tech to be done before seeing if CIG is able or not to do what they want to do.
No they don't. That's not how software development actually works. There's this thing called “abstraction” that has been around since, oh, the 50s or so (and I'll leave it to you to guess which century). It's an essential tool to avoid exactly the kind of unsolvable mutual interdependence you're describing, and which allows for complex prototyping (another essential tool) to go ahead without just being stuck in the same spot forever.
But perhaps more importantly, if CI¬G has not been able to figure out by now what they're able to do and not, this entire project is entirely a lie. They've collected closer to half a billion dollars on a lie. There's a word often used to describe that kind of thing — it's nice to see that you're ever inching closer to accepting this description…
