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curl-6 on 22 November 2014
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HylianSwordsman said:
curl-6 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Studios

"Retro Studios, Inc. is an American first-party video game developer and division of Nintendo based in Austin, Texas."

Second party:

  1. Independently owned studios who take development contracts from the platform holders and what they produce will usually be exclusive to that platform.
  2. Studios who are partially or wholly owned by the platform holder (also known as a subsidiary) and what they produce will usually be exclusive to that platform.

Retro studios is the second kind. Know what else was? Rare. And we saw how that turned out for Nintendo. Where are Banjo and Conker now? Not with Nintendo. Sure, Nintendo would keep Metroid and Donkey Kong if Retro were bought out, but that's because those are Nintendo owned IP. Doesn't change the fact that Retro is second party.

"In the video game industry, a first-party developer is part of a company which manufactures a video game console and develops exclusively for it. First-party developers may use the name of the company itself (such as Nintendo), have a specific division name (such as Sony's Polyphony Digital) or have been an independent studio before being acquired by the console manufacturer (such as Rare or Naughty Dog).[5]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_developer#First-party_developer

Retro are a Nintendo studio, they are first party.