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Chrizum on 06 June 2009
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ZZetaAlec said:
Chrizum said:
ZZetaAlec said:
Chrizum said:
The game, along with every Metroid Prime game, is second party, because it's not being made (entirely) by Nintendo but it is owned by Nintendo.

Definitely not third party.

The Prime games are first party, Retro is a first party Nintendo developer as Nintendo owns 100% of the company.

I don't think that's correct. Retro is owned by Nintendo, but Retro is not a in-house developer. That's called second party as far as I know.

If you mean 'in house' developer as in are they based in the main headquarters then no, but Nintendo own 100% percent of the company and are as much a part of Nintendo as any of the EAD studios. A second party dev (while not a clearly defined term) is gerally accepted to mean a studio that is under contract to produce games exclusively for a certain company ( normally within within a period of time) while still remaining indepent. A good example of this would be Nintendo's relationship with Silicon Knights last gen.

I admit I'm no expert at this area. Your definition sounds very plausible.