| Ryuu96 said: Tbf Klob didn't label it as 1st party, he said Xbox Studios which is accurate, Xbox Game Studios Publishing comes under Xbox Game Studios and they are the ones who are publishing Ninja Gaiden 4 and XGSP isn't just "Here's some money now go make this" but a team consisting of around 200 developers of all varieties, from creative directors to writers to tech, etc. So it's not 1st party as Microsoft doesn't own the IP but it is an Xbox Studios project. As for what that is called, gamers invented the term 2nd party for that, but I say invented because the majority of the industry doesn't actually recognise 2nd party as an official term. It has been said multiple times by those in the industry that 2nd party isn't a term used by them. |
I know PlayStation uses the term second-party, which Shuhei Yoshida confirmed further and had articles written on the subject. So it doesn't seem like something gamers invented. At least I wouldn't think game companies would adopt a term that gamers invented lol.
This was Yoshida's quote, which is exactly how I've always viewed the matter: “We call second-party when an independent company created the game and funded it or joint funded it, so the IP is still owned by that company. A recent example is Rise of the Ronin by Koei Tecmo. PlayStation published that game so we call it second-party.”
This ties into what Ninja Gaiden 4 would be considered. At least this also means that the game will never leave GP. At least theoretically.
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