>>38732806>Of course Second Party is a term. Why have first and third, but not second?Then why don't you ask where the second person shooters are?
>First party is the platform holder, Nintendo.Yup.
>third party us totally independent.Yup.
>Second party is closely connected to the first parties.No, the closest thing are subsidiaries, like Monolith Soft and Retro Studios. "Second Party" is slang for this arrangement at best, and Gamefreak isn't one of them either way.
>The day I see a mainline pokemon game on Xbox and/or Playstation is the day I'll accept Game Freak as a third party.Because you need to learn to separate a company being third party from a game franchise being third party. Pokemon is owned (in large part) by Nintendo, but Gamefreak can release games (like Tembo and Giga Wrecker) on any system because they're a third party developer. No different from how PlatinumGames is a third party, but they've developed two games that are 100% owned by Nintendo, and were working on a game 100% owned by Microsoft.
