stewacide on 05 March 2007
euclid said:
stof said:
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 makes a *lot* of games, but most are not particularly popular. God of War and Gran Turismo are examples of A-grade Sony first-party titles.
"Second party" is a term that doesn't make a lot of sense anymore honestly: it is/was an outside developer that's exclusive to one platform, usually owned partially or wholly by the system maker. Back when e.g. Nintendo and Sega had large central development houses, but were also affiliated with outside developers (e.g. Rare with Nintendo) this was a useful distinction (Rare wasn't Nintendo, but they were a 2nd party to Nintendo)... but now that MS and Sony are really just collections of 2nd parties the distinction isn't very clear (even Nintendo farms out so much these day's it's becoming a lot blurrier).
