Vita EU launch line-up confirmed

Fr33Kye on 22 Nov '11 said:

Everyone should know this is just the first party titles. Dont rush to conclusions without knowing that.

monty_79 on 22 Nov '11 said:

And Escape Plan, CVG! Will probably get this around June when the price of the first batch of games come down in price. Will also get an idea of if it is going to flop or not.

silent moose on 22 Nov '11 said:

"that's a good pitch"

MJ-Thriller94 on 22 Nov '11 said:

Uncharted definately looking shexy on that list.

Can someone please help me out here, little short when it comes to such detail. Does first party mean like companies that develop exclusively to sony? With second and third parties being like Ubisoft and Activision, developing for all consoles?

Thanks in advance

Hope to see the FFX Remake and Metal Gear collection coming out on day one for the Vita, would be nice to have such classics in my collection

yolopo on 22 Nov '11 said:

You've forgot Unit 13.

damoxuk on 22 Nov '11 said:

I'll be gettiwi-fi vita along with a 16 or 32gb memory card and Uncharted + Super stardust Delta (hopefully stardust be a sub £10 download game).

damoxuk on 22 Nov '11 said:

Oh and yes 1st party means - companies owned by the console they are developing for.
I.e Nintendo makes Mario games for Nintendo consoles
Microsoft makes Halo/Forza for 360
Sony makes Uncharted/God of war etc for playstation brand.

3rd party develop for anything they want.

Not heard of 2nd party? Not sure there is such a thing in regards to the gaming industry.

MJ-Thriller94 on 22 Nov '11 said:

Oh and yes 1st party means - companies owned by the console they are developing for.
I.e Nintendo makes Mario games for Nintendo consoles
Microsoft makes Halo/Forza for 360
Sony makes Uncharted/God of war etc for playstation brand.

3rd party develop for anything they want.

Not heard of 2nd party? Not sure there is such a thing in regards to the gaming industry.

Thanks. I dunno whether there is second parties, just predicted it hahaha

JBoo on 23 Nov '11 said:

WOW best line up EVER

BlueScorpion91 on 23 Nov '11 said:

Oh and yes 1st party means - companies owned by the console they are developing for.
I.e Nintendo makes Mario games for Nintendo consoles
Microsoft makes Halo/Forza for 360
Sony makes Uncharted/God of war etc for playstation brand.

3rd party develop for anything they want.

Not heard of 2nd party? Not sure there is such a thing in regards to the gaming industry.

I Imagen that 2nd party is where the platform holder can deal directly with an independent developing company. So it goes 1st party(platform holder owned), 2nd party(independently developed with no interference) and 3rd party(game owned bye independent publisher who also owns the dev). I've made all that up I'm sure, but that's how I like to think of the un-loved 2nd party, lol.

Fr33Kye on 23 Nov '11 said:

I believe there is such a thing as second party but apparently it just refers to developers who have agreed to work solely for that platform, but are not owned. Game freak are not owned by nintendo. Neither were sucker punch before this year. Insomniac and game freak i think still have the ability to go multiplatform, but their ip's are likely owned by the publisher.

blackholes on 23 Nov '11 said:

Very meh for me so far, may wait for Bioshock.See what else gets announced.

TheLastDodo on 23 Nov '11 said:

I believe there is such a thing as second party but apparently it just refers to developers who have agreed to work solely for that platform, but are not owned. Game freak are not owned by nintendo. Neither were sucker punch before this year. Insomniac and game freak i think still have the ability to go multiplatform, but their ip's are likely owned by the publisher.

For ex. Epic Games, they're not owned by Microsoft but they develop Gears of War exclusively for the 360.

Insomniac have gone multi-platform now with Overstrike, which is released next year and is being published by EA.

Fr33Kye on 23 Nov '11 said:

I'm crazy excited about overstrike. I've loved there work with ratchet and clank but i'm really hoping going multiplatform allows them to get the respect they deserve. I havent bought it yet since i'm so behind on games i just finished shadows of the damned like a week ago, but resistance 3 shocked a few people. I had my eye on it, knowing it was gonna be better than people expected and a lot of the press was really impressed but it eventually got overlooked by the media and gamers because of this massacre they call a fall season. I'm truly hoping they get some serious credit for Overstrike.

Dewin on 23 Nov '11 said:

Uncharted, Everybody's Golf and Super Stardust Delta will keep me occupied for a very long time. That, and a few PsP games i missed that are now with Vita controls. Enough to keep me busy for the second wave of great games to arrive.

Faughnan on 23 Nov '11 said:

Oh and yes 1st party means - companies owned by the console they are developing for.
I.e Nintendo makes Mario games for Nintendo consoles
Microsoft makes Halo/Forza for 360
Sony makes Uncharted/God of war etc for playstation brand.

3rd party develop for anything they want.

Not heard of 2nd party? Not sure there is such a thing in regards to the gaming industry.

1st party are the company itself developing for it's own system ( Nintendo EAD)
2nd party are companies which aren't the company itself but are owned by the company and so the games are exclusive to that system ( Retro Studios )
3rd party are independent companies that develop for anyone and everyone ( ubisoft activision etc )

ChrisIW on 23 Nov '11 said:

WHAT ABOUT LITTLE BIG PLANET!!!!

ted1138 on 23 Nov '11 said:

1st party are the company itself developing for it's own system ( Nintendo EAD)
2nd party are companies which aren't the company itself but are owned by the company and so the games are exclusive to that system ( Retro Studios )
3rd party are independent companies that develop for anyone and everyone ( ubisoft activision etc )

1st Party is the company that owns the system(ie Sony for Playstation or MS for 360), so any game or product they make for that system themselves.
2nd Party is you, the customer.
3rd Party is anyone else who is/are neither of the above.

photoboy on 23 Nov '11 said:

Where's Ridge Racer? It's not a proper hardware launch without a new Ridge Racer to go with it.

WHERESMYMONKEY on 23 Nov '11 said:

As much as i love uncharted i can't in good concious spend £300 on a handheld for one game. I'm going to wait a while me thinks.

Faughnan on 23 Nov '11 said:

1st party are the company itself developing for it's own system ( Nintendo EAD)
2nd party are companies which aren't the company itself but are owned by the company and so the games are exclusive to that system ( Retro Studios )
3rd party are independent companies that develop for anyone and everyone ( ubisoft activision etc )

1st Party is the company that owns the system(ie Sony for Playstation or MS for 360), so any game or product they make for that system themselves.
2nd Party is you, the customer.
3rd Party is anyone else who is/are neither of the above.

No thats not right you are mixing up 1st 2nd 3rd party companies with 1st person 2nd person and 3rd person in the english language. 1st 2nd and 3rd party are all developers

Barca Azul on 23 Nov '11 said:

Its a pretty impressive line up for launch!

humanhand on 23 Nov '11 said:

I hope Touch My Katamari launches at launch. Launch. .... launch.

me4pd on 23 Nov '11 said:

1st party are the company itself developing for it's own system ( Nintendo EAD)
2nd party are companies which aren't the company itself but are owned by the company and so the games are exclusive to that system ( Retro Studios )
3rd party are independent companies that develop for anyone and everyone ( ubisoft activision etc )

This is the only fully correct description.

ted1138 on 23 Nov '11 said:

No thats not right you are mixing up 1st 2nd 3rd party companies with 1st person 2nd person and 3rd person in the english language. 1st 2nd and 3rd party are all developers

Look it up, you'll find I'm right and you're wrong(there's no such thing as a 2nd party developer)...

Buddha on 23 Nov '11 said:

Wow, viva la Vita!

Mmmmgrolsch on 23 Nov '11 said:

1st party are the company itself developing for it's own system ( Nintendo EAD)
2nd party are companies which aren't the company itself but are owned by the company and so the games are exclusive to that system ( Retro Studios )
3rd party are independent companies that develop for anyone and everyone ( ubisoft activision etc )

This is the only fully correct description.

No it is not. His 2nd party description has just described a 1st party dev. Any game developer companies Ninty/Sony/MS OWN are 1st party developers.

SpandexArmstrong on 23 Nov '11 said:

Not too shabby, I'm interested in The Escape Plan most. I was hoping for some LBP also, but oh well

Agent75 on 23 Nov '11 said:

The mass will not pay into Vita, plus games at £39.99, it just isn't worth it. 3DS games sell for up to £34.99, so I can see Vita games selling for around the same. I think most gamers will make Sony sweat like the 3DS, which will force a price cut.

shellster2 on 24 Nov '11 said:

despite the fact the vita looks mightily impressive and some of the launch titles look good Sony seem to be following the exact same line as they did with PSP, i.e. big console games onto the handheld. This they have admitted was an error of judgement with PSP and that they had learnt their lessons. So why on earth are they pushing the big PS3 titles onto the Vita?

I'm not saying it won't work for them but after they admitted it was naive of them to do it last time why would they do it again?

Uncharted does look a bit special though!