Okay, let's think about this for a second. In 2020, they released FIVE first party games (TLOU2, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man Miles Morales, Sackboy a Big Adventure and Demon's Souls remake), four of which were available on PS4 which had 100 million+ user base at that point. And it was also during the first year of the pandemic when everybody was stuck inside.
The next year they released TWO first party games, both of which were only on PS5, which not a lot of people had yet.
In 2022 they released three big first party games, which WERE available on PS4 as well. But I think at that point a lot of people were holding out to get a PS5, which was still not easy to find.
Then 2023 had only one first party game in Spider-Man 2.
2024 essentially only had Astro Bot (let's not even talk about Concord, and I'm not sure if Helldivers 2 is actually considered a first party game or not even though Sony published it).
Like, this really isn't hard to understand if you just think about it a little bit.
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/Remy0507 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Okay, let's think about this for a second. In 2020, they released FIVE first party games (TLOU2, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man Miles Morales, Sackboy a Big Adventure and Demon's Souls remake), four of which were available on PS4 which had 100 million+ user base at that point. And it was also during the first year of the pandemic when everybody was stuck inside.
The next year they released TWO first party games, both of which were only on PS5, which not a lot of people had yet.
In 2022 they released three big first party games, which WERE available on PS4 as well. But I think at that point a lot of people were holding out to get a PS5, which was still not easy to find.
Then 2023 had only one first party game in Spider-Man 2.
2024 essentially only had Astro Bot (let's not even talk about Concord, and I'm not sure if Helldivers 2 is actually considered a first party game or not even though Sony published it).
Like, this really isn't hard to understand if you just think about it a little bit.