| Nautilus said: Smash is a Nintendo game developed by Nintendo( or that Nintendo outsource some of the development to others), and thus, it is a first party game. Kingdom Battle is, by definition, a second party game.A third party exclusive(since thats the discussion) would be Octopath Traveler, just to give an example.But if you feel like calling Kingdom Battle a third party game, because thats what it feels like to you, thats your prerogative and thats more than fine. |
I gotta say the other guy is right. Mario + Rabbids is third party. It is a collaboration between Nintendo and Ubisoft and to allow Ubisoft to use the Mario franchise they required Ubisoft follow their rules but that in no way makes it second party.
2nd party doesn't have anything to do with how much a third party communicated with or got direction from a console maker about a particular game like the Mario + Rabbids mashup. 2nd party refers to a company not a specific game. It generally means the console maker owns a large enough amount of the company to get to be in charge of what platforms their games come out on. So 2nd party games only come from 2nd party studios.
A first party game is developed by first party studios, a second party game is developed by second party studios, a third party game is developed by third party studios. Mario + Rabbids is developed and published by Ubisoft - it is entirely a third party game, though obviously the licensing is shared between the two franchises so neither Nintendo nor Ubisoft would be able to make a sequel without the other's approval. Every game Ubisoft makes is third party.
