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DonFerrari on 21 May 2020
TheMisterManGuy said:
DonFerrari said:

Well the only concept of 2nd party game would be a game made by a second party studio, but sure it would look akin to a first party game.

I still consider games from independent studios published by the platform holder to be first party. The platform holder is still putting their own money and dev talent on these games, so they count IMO.

Published I don't consider because that could be temporary exclusive, local publishing among other circumstance. The important part is the ownership of the IP.



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TheMisterManGuy on 21 May 2020
DonFerrari said:

Published I don't consider because that could be temporary exclusive, local publishing among other circumstance. The important part is the ownership of the IP.

That's what I'm talking about. There are obvious exceptions such as publishing internationally. But If a platform holder publishes a game worldwide, they more than likely had a hand in its development and own the trademarks to it.