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Originally posted by BigJustinW
Under your definition, Rare is a third party because they can plublish thier own games... Plus they have no contract with Nintendo to make thier games exclusive. (even though the franchises they use have to stay exclusive)
But like I said before, I think it comes down to the games... there is a crystal clear difference between a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party game... but a developer can develop all three types of games at the same... NBA 2k2, and Sonic can be labeld as 2nd party (for Dreamcast) and third party (for Gamecube) games. So what "party" is Sega in?
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No by Yoda's definition Rare would be a 3rd party. I think a company owning about 50% of another company is pretty close to a contractual obliagation.
And even though Rare could publish their own games really don't mean they can take it anywhere they went. Like you said Nintendo opwns pretty much all their franchises, so you can't expect Rare to make PD0 or Banjo and take it to the Ps2 or X-Box.
Sonic for DC was a first party game. The game was made by Sega. Sonic Team is a development house of Sega of Japan. The 2k2 were a 2nd party game because Visual Concepts to my knowledge aren't really part of Sega's core 9 teams. I could be wrong.
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