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Troll_Whisperer on 16 December 2014
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DanneSandin said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
DanneSandin said:
Cool data! But I don't get the difference between 1st and 2nd party?

Not owned by Sony but under contract for certain amount of games and partially/totally financed by them.

Ex: Heavy Rain for Sony, Bayonetta 2 for Nintendo, Gears of War 1-3 for MS.

Ok, but you putting GeoW up there doesn't really help clarify things... Are you talking about 3rd party exclusives, or games financed by Sony made by 3rd party companies - like Bayo2?

I'm talking about the bolded.

GeoW was owned and developed by Epic (not a MS's internal studio), just financed by MS. So it was 2nd party. It's only recently that MS bought the IP and are developing it internally, so it's 1st party now.

Similar to Bayo 2: developed by Platinum, published (and in this case owned) by Nintendo.

So yes. 2nd party is basically 3rd party with a contractual obligation to Sony/MS/Nintendo, and financed by these.



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