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Samus Aran on 07 June 2009
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Kenology 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 an in-house developer. That's called second party as far as I know.

Chrizum is correct.

It's not different from the N64 days with Nintendo having (IIRC) a 49% stake in Rare.  All of Rare's games were 2nd party games.

Second party means when they don't own atleast 51% of the company. Retro studios is 100% owned by Nintendo and is there for first party and not second party.