How the heck did Sony manage to retake the console market again?

[LudicrousSpeed]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

LudicrousSpeed said:

I read the first sentence of that and ignored the rest. A developer who makes a game funded by a platform holder is a 2nd party developer. Insomniac has been both a 2nd and 3rd party developer for MS and Sony this gen :)

The ip is not owned by ms therefore it is third party. To be third party said game must be contractually commissioned.

Does Sony own the Call of Duty IP? Because they published it in Japan and call that second party. With Sunset were not even talking about just publishing, it was entirely funded by Microsoft. It's a second party game. Or maybe you know more about these deals than Yoshida?