Nintendo has made 71 Brand new Franchises Since 2001

[VanceIX]

Blob said:

VanceIX said:

And that was all my point. Nintendo essentially controlled the company, but they didn't have 100% ownership, so not completely first party. Monolith Soft was still a public company when it released Xenoblade Chronicles, not a subsidary as it became in 2011. To each his own though, like I said. My definition for first party is different from yours. 

While I do see your point im curious as to how you view the games insomniac, media molecule and sucker punch made for Sony are labelled. Everyone considers them Sony IPs but the companies were never owned by sony when many of them were made, in fact littlebigplanet was shopped around to Nintendo before Sony gave them the money.

Well, Sony owns the IP in most of those cases. Nintendo did not own the Xenoblade Chronicles IP, that was owned soley by Monolith Soft. I consider Pokemon a first party Nintendo title, even though it is developed by a second party company (Gamefreak), because the IP itself is owned by Nintendo.