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Originally posted by ed328
That's not necessarily true. Example: Bomberman 64. It was published by Nintendo but this hardly makes Hudson Soft a second party developer. They've also had games published by Sega and Sony too. I think it would be hard to give a concrete definition of a second party. There might be a contract or it could be that a second party is a company that takes direction from the main company like Rare does from Nintendo where a third party gets to make all decisions internally. Maybe Nintendo finances some of their projects and that makes them a second party. But it doesn't really matter how you classify Rare cause all they are working on now are Nintendo games. And if they decide to develop for another console, well Nintendo does own 25% of them so that just means $$$$$.
Extra note: There should be a smiley with dollar signs for the eyes.
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Exactly...
1st Party Game: Game developed, plublished, and rights owned by console maker
(Mario, almost every Sonic game, Gran Turismo)
2nd Party game: Game with rights owned by console maker, or game plublished by console maker, or both
(Mario RPG, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot 1-3)
3rd party game: Game not plublished by, developed by, or owned by console maker.
(Madden, Street Fighter, WWF Games)
Square, Rare, and Visual concepts have all made 2nd and 3rd party games.... Sega has made 1st and 3rd party games... So how can you label the developers it it's not based off of the games?