Erik Aston on 31 January 2008
| marcus1979 said: here is Nintendo's first and second party developers First-party: Brownie Brown • EAD • Intelligent Systems • Monolith Soft • NST • Retro Studios • SPD Second Party: AlphaDream • Ambrella • Game Freak • Genius Sonority • HAL Laboratory • Noise Anything not developed by these companies are third party ie Mario and Sonic at Olympics was a Sega title ;) |
Thanks for the list! I've never seen a complete one for Nintendo, or the other console makers either.
However, while Game Freak, HAL, etc., may work exclusively with Nintendo, and in many of those cases Nintendo owns all the publishing rights to their IP, there are still other "second party" games. Square, Tose, Hudson, etc., act as "second parties" in more limited arrangements.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
