Nintendo franchises make me laugh with disappointment other than Zelda which is damn good. Microsoft is pretty sweet too. They got some killer games out there.

No they're not, just like Ratchet & Clank and inFamous isn't 1st party either.

If those games arent first party then neither is Metroid Other M

That's a really interesting problem, isn't it?

One could make the argument that Team Ninja is just doing contract work for Nintendo, since the artists (I think) and project director are from Nintendo, and the hwole project is being done under Nintendo supervision...

But I don't know the details of R&C or inFamous.

I don't know the situation with Other M (with Team Ninja and all), but Insomniac, Sucker Punch and Quantic Dream are all second party developers for Sony.

I still love Nintendo more than i do for Sony and Microsoft.

We're talking about variety, quantity and quality isn't it?
Here the list that explain my choice (since everyone present one...):

- Zelda games
- Pokémon games
- Super Mario games /Mario Kart included
- Metroid games
- Super Smash Bros.
- Sports line
- Professor Layton games
- Fire Emblem games
- F-Zero games
- Star Fox games
- Rhythm Tengoku games
- Kid Ikarus (yes, we're still waiting for this one)
- Donkey Kong games
- others.


This is my favorite first party line up. Games with no fikin' blood and weapons and war and grey all over the place.

It works like this, Insomniac, sucker punch, and QD made the games but Sony owns the IPs. Metroid is a nintendo owned property, but is being developed by a nonnintendo company, tecmo. So they are all first party owned games developed by studios that aren't owned by the respective first party. 

With Other M, I think the difference is that Nintendo are letting a 3rd party work on something that Nintendo themselves created, which makes it trickier to categorize. 

With Sony, all those properties were created by 2nd party developers, which makes them 2nd party games.

These are the 1st party published games I currently own for all three systems:

Xbox 360:

• Halo 3
• Halo ODST
• Gears of War 2
• Crackdown

PS3:

• Little Big Planet

Wii:

• Wii Sports
• Wii Sports Resort
• New Super Mario Brothers
• Wii Fit for girlfriend!

I was always thinking of getting Super Smash brothers though I never seem to get around to it along with having a look at Mario Party 8.

I have a criteria for keeping a game, if I don't see myself playing it again then I sell it. If the game gets supersceded by another I sell the older version. Having local play is a big part of keeping a title, and Halo is the only game I have ever played online. So even taking away the PC games the Xbox 360 titles from Microsoft have what I want. When it comes to consoles im probably a little casual in that I expect every game I own to be shared. Sony titles in general don't and I hold no grudge over this fact. Part of the reason why I only own LBP is the fact that Sony are constantly releasing new titles which gives me even more incentive to sell the old to buy the new.

So yeah im a bit anal about having useless possessions taking up space. I don't keep games for sentimental reasons, I only want to look at games that I will definately play in my collection.

I would agree with this, but I will through Sony a bone here. I believe they make the best action games! I haven't played them personally, but Uncharted 2, God Of War 3, and Infamous. Seem to be good games. Nintendo doesn't really make action games. 

So Sony is Action, Nintendo is platformer, and Microsoft is FPS.