Words Of Wisdom on 07 June 2009
| thekitchensink said: With the Prime games, it didn't really matter, as Retro was owned by Nintendo, so it was 'fircond party'.
Since this one's jointly developed by Nintendo and a completely separate third party developer, what do you call it? 'Thirst party'? Hopefully not, because then everyone would need a drink. |
The deciding factor of first/third party is the relationship between the game developer and the console developer.
Game Developer == Console Developer : First Party
Game Developer != Console Developer : Third Party
Unless someone would like to claim that Nintendo owns Team Ninja then Metroid: The Other M is clearly a third party game.
The fact that it is using a Nintendo IP is irrelevant.
