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

[LudicrousSpeed]

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

LudicrousSpeed said:
Just Google Sony publishing Black Ops 3, there was an interview some time ago where he talked about wanting more 2nd party deals like that.

Now the million dolllar question is, given how often you praise Sony here, will a direct confirmation from a big time Sony exec himself make you admit you were wrong and take the L or will the thread see even more shifting of goalposts? I gotta say, I'm hoping for the latter, just because I wanna see what you could possibly come up with.

I read it.i think you mean Sony and Microsoft acted as second party publishers for their respective platforms in Japan since neither activision and square wouldn't do it.

That's exactly what I and Yoshida said. In Japan, Blops 3 is a 2nd party game. What Yoshida is telling you is that deals where they publish the game, regardless of whether they own the IP or if they commissioned the game, is a 2nd party deal. Which would make Sunset a 2nd party game, as MS not only published, but also funded :)

To say anything otherwise would be saying you know more about these deals than someone who actually makes them. It seems so much easier to just admit you're wrong on what a 2nd party game is. I mean, is it really that big a deal that Insomniac is a 2nd party partner with MS this gen? I'm having a hard time understanding why you have your head so deep in the sand over this.