LudicrousSpeed said:
I don't need a random YouTube link from some random YouTuber, I have knowledge of decades reading and watching the talk of the industry plus a Sony exec. If you scour Papa Phil's twitter account you'll also see him saying games like Dance Central Spotlight and Ninja Gaiden 2 were 2nd party, both of which are even weaker examples of 2nd party games than Sunset, because they were both already established IPs :) Or maybe we need to take YouTuber #615 at his word over Phil Spencer and whatever Yoshida? Look, I tried to throw you a lifeboat but you seem intent on drowning here so have fun. |
"--I see. Major's Japan that is, it is that almost all second party covered in Asia.
Kawauchi said: has been increasing in Japan as well as Asia. For example, or "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" is the second party in Japan. When I was in Tokyo, I made a thing called second-party deal. It has also created a contract, we have your explanation also is that what each Ya I second party. There you will know I'm No. 1 in the inside."
The link to the actual page Dual Shockers was talking about (translated to English). I read it here from Kawauchi saying that the game was contracted and therefore was second party. As I stipulated, second party games are contracted (Which was not stated in the Dualshockers article which is why I kept arguing my point) and thus Sony acted as a publisher which means the same goes for Microsoft. In this you're correct that Black Ops 3 is second party for both Sony and Microsoft in Japan. If the company was not contracted to make said game, it cannot be second party; therefore, Sunset is not a second party for Microsoft. The first party must pursue and contract the third party. In Sunset Overdrive, in order to secure independence and control their IP they pursued Microsoft to publish the game for them.
http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview/734289.html
