In your opinion, between Sony and MS, who has better 1st/2nd party titles?

[Lord N]

The_God_of_War said:

Zlejedi said:
What's the diffrence beetween 1st and 2nd party ?

As for the mentioned ones Sony.

 

Take Gears of War as an example- Epic are an independant developer, but MS own the Gears of War franchise. This means it's a 2nd party title, Microsoft don't own Epic but they own the rights to the game. I'm pretty sure this is what it means anyway.

 

Now take Uncharted as an example- Sony actually own Naughty Dawg, the developer, as well as the Uncharted name. So this makes it a 1st party title.

 

At the end of the day it's not really a huge difference, that's why most people consider 2nd party games to be 1st party games.

 

MS does not own the Gears Of War franchise. They just payed Epic a lot of money to keep it exclusive. Just because they published it doesn't mean that they own it.

Anyway, Sony has more and far better internal talent than MS does. It isn't even close. Outside of Halo, PGR, and maybe Fable, MS's first and second party titles aren't that hot. This is one of the reasons why they haven't managed to turn a consistent profit.