Ah, OK. I guess I love Nintendo's "first party" games then, more than any other company's.
You said that Wii has online play, but that it sucks. I was under the impression that it did NOT have online play at all.......??? On 7/17/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:01 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: E3 Press Conference Impressions: Part 2, Nintendo > > > > Sorry, what are "first party games"? Do you mean first person shooters? > > "First Party" games are games created by the creators of the hardware on > which they run or by companies solely owned by that company. Nintendo > games > created for Nintendo hardware are "First Party". > > For Nintendo this includes games like "Zelda", "Mario" and "Metroid". For > Sony this would include "God of War" or "Grand Turismo" and for MS this > includes "Halo" and "Viva Piñata". > > "Third Party" games created by independent developers/publishers, EA or > Activision for instance, that don't have any ownership stake in the > hardware > platform. Games like "Grand Theft Auto" or "Madden" are third > party. Third > party games are often cross-platform but don't have to be. Games like > "Final Fantasy", "Gears of War", "Blue Dragon" and "Metal Gear Solid" are > all third party exclusives. > > You don't hear it much and it's a bit fuzzy to begin with but "Second > Party" > usually refers to an independently (or at least partly independently) > owned > studio that only produces for a single platform. They often have close > ties > to the platform owner. Studios like Naughty Dog ("Jak and Daxter"), > Insomniac ("Ratchet and Clank") and CSP ("Mario Golf and Tennis") are > often > called "Second Party". > > Second Party developers often work on IP owned by the platform holder (for > example Ready At Dawn have worked with the "Daxter" and "God of War" > licenses, both owned by Sony). > > Traditionally most of a console's exclusive titles come from First and > Second party developer with large, public deals made for important third > party games. A console doesn't require third party support to thrive but > it > does help significantly. Nintendo, more than any other publisher, lives > or > dies based on the quality of its first/second party titles. > > The fortunes of Sony and Microsoft are much more tied to their third-party > relationships although both companies have growing, successful > first/second > party portfolios both combined pale against Nintendo's. "Mario" (which > includes "Yoshi", "Luigi", "Wario", "Super Smash Bros", etc), "Zelda", > "Donkey Kong", "Pokeman", "Brain Age", "Metroid", "Star Fox", "Animal > Crossing", "Pikmin", "Nintendogs", "Kirby" and many other less successful > franchises are all owned by Nintendo. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:238499 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
