Will Rareware leave? New info and speculation

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Originally posted by Xantar

Ok. What's a third party?

For our purposes, a third party developer is a company that develops games for a system but does not have its games published by the maker of the system.

So a second party is a developer whose games are published by the console manufacturer?

Correct.

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.