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*Kid Icarus* · 10-10-2006, 03:56 PM

All that stuff right above me just goes to show that n00b gamers need to learn more about the industry before we let them loose on intraweb message boards.

Quick lesson...

Hardware makers, aside from selling development kits and sometimes approving games, have NOTHING to do with what third parties create for their systems.

First parties are houses inside the hardware makers company. Nintendo's infamous R&D1 is a great example of a first party, or Sonic Team back when SEGA actually made hardware is another.

'Second' parties is a term made up for studios a hardware maker has a large, controlling, chunk of stock in. RARE durring the N64 days, or Silicon Knights are examples of this. They arn't allowed by the majority stock holder to develop games for other platforms, but they arn't owned by the stock holder either.

Third parties, which SNK falls into, are independent studios. They can make games for anything and everything under the sun, and usually do. Rockstar, Capcom, Konami, SEGA, SquareEnix, and like I said above, SNK are all good examples.

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As you can see, Nintendo can't tell SNK NOT to make the game... but they can deny them liscensing rights to use their systems, which in turn means the game won't be released.

10-10-2006, 03:56 PM	#21
Kid Icarus Foot Elite Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Angel Land Posts: 4,150	All that stuff right above me just goes to show that n00b gamers need to learn more about the industry before we let them loose on intraweb message boards. Quick lesson... Hardware makers, aside from selling development kits and sometimes approving games, have NOTHING to do with what third parties create for their systems. First parties are houses inside the hardware makers company. Nintendo's infamous R&D1 is a great example of a first party, or Sonic Team back when SEGA actually made hardware is another. 'Second' parties is a term made up for studios a hardware maker has a large, controlling, chunk of stock in. RARE durring the N64 days, or Silicon Knights are examples of this. They arn't allowed by the majority stock holder to develop games for other platforms, but they arn't owned by the stock holder either. Third parties, which SNK falls into, are independent studios. They can make games for anything and everything under the sun, and usually do. Rockstar, Capcom, Konami, SEGA, SquareEnix, and like I said above, SNK are all good examples. </end videogame industry lesson> As you can see, Nintendo can't tell SNK NOT to make the game... but they can deny them liscensing rights to use their systems, which in turn means the game won't be released.