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euclid said: stof said: First party titles seem to matter now more than ever, but I don't see any one company (not even the big N itself) having the muscle and franchises to significantly dominate over another. I am rather new to the video game scene (last console owned was SNES), but what first party titles does MS and sony have (halo comes to mind for MS...)? I thought sony produced a minimal amount of games and relied on third party developers? Also, what the heck is second party developers?

Sony actually has quitea bit of dev capacity. A recent net article stated that in sheer person power, they were number one. Here's a quick list taken from wikipedia. Internal division Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. * Clap Hanz – Hot Shots Golf series * Polyphony Digital – Gran Turismo series, Omega Boost * SCE Japan Studio (Project SIREN Team, etc.) – Ape Escape series, LocoRoco * Team ICO – ICO, Shadow of the Colossus SCEI Subsidiary Divisions Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. * Incognito Entertainment – Twisted Metal: Black * Naughty Dog – Jak series * SCE Bend Studio (formerly Eidetic) – Syphon Filter series * SCE Foster City Studio (includes 989 Studios) – Rise to Honor * SCE San Diego Studio (includes 989 Sports & Red Zone Interactive) – The Mark of Kri, NBA '07 * SCE Santa Monica Studio – God of War, Kinetica * Sony Online Entertainment LLC. – EverQuest * Zipper Interactive – SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs series Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd. * Guerrilla Games – Killzone series * SCE London Studio (includes Team SOHO & Camden) – The Getaway series, SingStar * SCE Studio Cambridge (formerly Millennium Interactive) – MediEvil series, Primal * SCE Studio Liverpool (formerly Psygnosis) – Wipeout series, F1 series Sony Computer Entertainment Korea Inc. * SCE Korea – EyeToy: EduKids, GloRace: Phantastic Carnival As for microsoft, they're probably the smaller of the three, but they used their wallet well to get into gaming, purchasing Bungie and Rare, and some others. Here's there Wiki list In-house studios * ACES Game Studio — Flight Simulator series, Combat Flight Simulator series and the upcoming Train Simulator 2 * Bungie — Halo series, Myth series, Marathon series * Ensemble — Age of Empires series, Age of Mythology series, Halo Wars * FASA Interactive — Shadowrun, Crimson Skies, Mechwarrior series * Feel Plus! — A new studio set up in conjunction with Mistwalker (they will be producing a new RPG titled Lost Odyssey) * Lionhead — Black & White series, The Movies, Fable series * Rare — Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark series, Kameo, Killer Instinct series, Banjo series, Viva Pinata * Turn 10 — Forza Motorsport series * Wingnut Interactive — A new studio set up in conjunction with Peter Jackson (they will be producing a new game based in the Halo universe) As for second party developers. It's usually a term for independant devs that sign contracts to work exclusively for a console manufacturer. Rare was a second party company for Nintendo, till they were purchased outright by Microsoft.