http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_development_parties

educate your self :]

Contrail hasn'tmade anythign since 2000.  I think they're defunct.

I've often wondered why SCEI has never really had any specific teams like SCEA or SCEE.  Aside from Polyphony Digital and Team ICO, their teams are just lumped together under Sony Japan.  They have the unofficial Team Siren, the Ape Escape team, Contrail, and others just kinda mixed together moving from game to game.  They seem more like Ubisoft or something when it comes to this.

I give up...i explained it in the easiest way I possibly could...Music maybe you can give it a shot???...btw everybody Metroid: Other M and Metroid: Prime are not 1st party

Well, it does.  The developer ultimately determines the quality of the game, and Sony's second parties never quite stood up to their first parties in terms of quality.  Whether that's due to budget, tech sharing, or the actually brains behind each title, most of Sony's second party titles are merely good, while their first party stuff generally sits near the forefront of their respective genres.

Nintendo owns Retro Studios, so the Prime series is first party.  :P

Actually, ive explained it to you, and given you a link to read up on. but what ever helps you sleep at night.

Atleast you understand the difference lol.

Music were not talkin bout Quality...were talkin about fact that he believes SONY IP are not 1st party if they arnt develop by SONY themselves..which is false thats why i used Metroid: Prime and Other M as examples

Actually where talking about why sony doesnt have a FIRST PARTY rpg IE a game developed by a company OWNED by sony.

and like music said Metroid prim and other m are made by Retro studios who are owned by nintendo making it a FIRST party studio.

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Well, ultimately it's the developers that make games great.  Owning the developers means you'll always have the means to make more great titles. 

If you own an IP but not the developer, then the day may come where the developer breaks relations with you, and you're kinda stuck with no team to make a sequel, or at least not the same team that made the first game great (look at Ninja Theory and Heavenly Sword - Sony owning the IP doesn't make it anymore likely that we'll get a sequel =/).

And look at Naughty Dog.  Would it have been better if Sony owned the Crash IP?  Or owned Naughty Dog?  If they just owned Crash, we wouldn't be seeing a robust, internal Naughty Dog team pumping out games like Uncharted.