Hynad said:
Alkibiádēs said:
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.
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@bolded: What the heck... xD
A second party isn't bound to a first party. It can develop titles for every consoles if it wants. As long as it develops titles for IPs owned by another party, then it's a second party.
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Yes, they are. But bonds don't always last, as you can see with Insomniac. According to your logic Atlus and Bandai Namco are second party developers to Nintendo... I can assure you they are not.