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TheMisterManGuy on 01 August 2019
Jumpin said:
TheMisterManGuy said:

Nintendo's calling the shots. They own the trademark to Astral Chain, they're pouring money into development and marketing. It doesn't matter if Platinum is owned by Nintendo or not, the development team answers to them for this title.

Bayonetta is a bit trickier. Sega owns the Bayonetta trademark, but Nintendo owns the rights Bayonetta 2 and 3 under the license of Sega. 

So all those RARE games published by Nintendo were actually first-party titles and not second party titles?

Rare was a special case, they actually self-published quite a few of their own N64 titles. Nintendo distributed all of Rare's self-published games, but had little to no hand in producing those games. This is why all trademarks of Original Rare IP went to Microsoft when when they were sold. Nintendo owned very little of Rare's games.



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Chrkeller on 01 August 2019
RolStoppable said:
Chrkeller said:

I've always considered that 2nd party.  But it doesn't really matter.  For me 1st party is Nintendo developed.  

Jumpin said:

So all those RARE games published by Nintendo were actually first-party titles and not second party titles?

Second party is a variation of first party, not an equal mix of first and third party. Second party is also terminology that is gamer speak. You'll never see anyone in the business talk about second party game sales.

I don't know why the second party terminology was ever coined to begin with. Perhaps some people wanted to fantasize about the possibility of first party games getting ported to other consoles or it was about list wars and disqualifying a number of games to push an agenda.

You mean like the exclusive Nintendo published Banjo Kazooie going to the Xbox?  Nintendo doesn't own the rights to Bayo 3, so I fail to understand how it is 1st party.  



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