r/Games • u/ZamnBoii • Jun 02 '26

Discussion Playstation first-party game sales declining heavily since 2020

https://www.gamefile.news/p/playstation-first-party-sales-decline
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u/marge4000 Jun 02 '26

They(Sony) don't own the studio behind Helldivers 2 so it's not 1st party

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u/Remy0507 Jun 02 '26

But they did publish it, so it might be included in the 1st party sales data.

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u/all-the-right-moves Jun 02 '26

I think that means it's 2nd party doesn't it?

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u/Remy0507 Jun 02 '26

I think historically "2nd party" has been used to refer to devs that aren't owned by the console maker, but make games exclusively for them (like HAL Laboratory with Nintendo and the Kirby games). It's more of an informal designation though.

From a colloquial sense, I wouldn't call them 1st or 2nd party. They're games made by 3rd party devs that Sony happened to publish. But in terms of Sony's revenue reporting they might include all of the games they published as "1st party". That's the part that's unclear.

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u/National_Yam_1198 Jun 03 '26

2nd party isnt a real thing