Nintendo 1st party actually reminds me of Microsoft 1st party or vise versa

[pokoko]

Hynad said:

pokoko said:

Yeah, I guess you are.  You seem like someone who thinks terms like "first-party" were made up by fans but that's just ignorance.  They weren't.  It's an industry term.  From a publisher's perspective, anything they hold rights to, they consider "first party".  No one can come along and publish Minecraft on the Vita, for example.  Do you know why?  Because Sony holds the rights via agreement.

I honestly don't know why this is difficult for you to understand.  Regardless, I'll pass on to Microsoft that you think you know more than they do about publishing.

And that's obviously what the OP had in mind, right? Minecraft is a good Sony first party game, a good Nintendo first party game, and a good Microsoft first party game. A game developed by a studio owned by Microsoft. That makes so much sense. Just like your claim about Nioh being both a third and first party game. 

Which is why I said it wasn't worth arguing about in the first place.  Internet fans have their definition, just like "AAA", which was taken from the original, industry definition and twisted to mean something from a consumer perspective.  That's the one forums like this are going to use.  You wanted to get into schematics, though, which is why I thought it was worth having a conversation over, but that appears to not be the case.  I made a mistake by even mentioning malleable legal definitions on a gaming forum.  I really, honestly don't care about this and you obviously only want to consider this from one perspective, so I happily concede.  It means whatever you want it to mean.