Sony World Wide Studios is entering Beast mode. insane amount of exclusives

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Hynad said:

padib said:

You are correct that 2nd party is a loose term, but usually it's used to talk about a 2nd party studio and their games.

A good example of a second party studio is Rare and a good example of a second party game is Banjo Kazooie. Wild and Wild Sheep Studios don't fit the common definition as well, so I personally wouldn't call them 2nd party, but rather I'd call Wild an exclusive.

I understand if you disagree.

What? Rare is owned by Microsoft. It's a first party studio. So that was really not a good example. 

Now, second party isn't a loose term at all. Second party is when a third party studio develops a game for an IP owned by a first party. Quite simple, really.

Insomniac is a good example of a second party. They develop Ratchet & Clank games while Sony owns the IP.

Rare used to be a second party studio to Nintendo. Nintendo only owned 49% of the shares. Insomniac isn't a second party studio as they have started developing games for other consoles. AlphaDream and HAL Laboratory are two second party studios.