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

[Hynad]

Alkibiádēs said:

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.

@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. 

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.

When the company does a game for another, it's second party. Doesn't mean they have to be second party for only one company for everything they produce. That's up to the contract that binds their work. Insomniac issecond party to Sony for Ratcher & Clank games, while being third party for games like Sunset Overdrive. One is a second party game due to the IP being owned by Sony while the other is simply a third party exlusive still owned by the studio that created the game.

They're still independant. Not owned by the first party.