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Title: Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 06, 2005, 10:55:03 PM: According to GNN.Gamer.com (Babelfished here) a taiwanese site, Microstft Taiwan has revealed Xbox 2 supporters.
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3rd parties:

spring international limited liability company
third wave information limited liability company
2KGames
Activision Inc.
Atari Inc. (English valuable standard)
Bandai Co. Ltd.
Bethesda Softworks LLC
Capcom Co. Ltd.
Codemasters Software Company Ltd.
Eidos Inc.
Electronic Arts Inc. (Beautiful business skill electricity)
FromSoftware Inc.
KOEI Co. Ltd.
Konami
LucasArts
Majesco Entertainment
Midway Games Inc.
Namco Hometek Inc.
Phantagram Co. Ltd.
Rockstar Games
Sega of America Inc.
Tecmo Inc.
THQ Inc.
Ubisoft Entertainment
Vivendi Universal Games Inc.
Webzen Inc. (Net imperial sacrifices)

1st/2nd parties:

BioWare Corp.
Bizarre Creations Ltd.
Bungie Studios
Epic Games Inc.
FASA Studio
Game Republic Inc.
Lionhead Studios Ltd.
Mistwalker
Q Entertainment Inc.
Rare Ltd.
Real Time Worlds

This is just a partial list as more are to be revealed @ E3

p.s. - Microsoft Taiwan was responsible for the Sakaguchi of Miswalker leak before everyone else
Title: RE: Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: KDR_11k on April 07, 2005, 06:58:34 AM: What, Epic and Bioware were bought out by MS?
Title: RE: Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: mantidor on April 07, 2005, 07:02:02 AM: Mistwalker also? O_o! ms is in a buying spree!
Title: RE:Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: couchmonkey on April 07, 2005, 07:16:29 AM: I question this list. I'm sure it would be huge news if MS bought any more game developers. Maybe the person who wrote the list was thinking, "There as good as second-party" since Bioware gives a lot of attention to Xbox. Or maybe it's utter garbage.
Title: RE: Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: Ian Sane on April 07, 2005, 07:42:23 AM: That's a pretty good list of developers. Aside from Square Enix they're not really missing anybody there. Compare this to Nintendo who realistically will probably initially not have Rev support from Konami, Rockstar or Tecmo. But of course this all depends on what they actually get. The Xbox for example had Capcom support but it wasn't that great.

Still looking at this list it becomes clear that Nintendo has to step things up for the Rev. They currently don't have this amount of third party support or first/second parties and they kinda need to for the Rev to take off. Nintendo should look at this list as a checklist for supporters. Their goal should be to have 90% of the publishers on this list on board for the Rev.
Title: RE: Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: nitsu niflheim on April 07, 2005, 08:39:26 AM: Mistwalker are making a DS game too.
Title: RE:Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: Savior on April 07, 2005, 02:33:58 PM: So whats new? All of these developers were on board for the Xbox. I thought there were new Shocking developers?

Btw. THey havent bought out Bioware but they have an exclusive deal. Epic? I could have sworn Midway has a deal with Epic. So this list isnt completly acurate
Title: RE: Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: ruby_onix on April 07, 2005, 04:32:41 PM: Quote
Mistwalker also? O_o! ms is in a buying spree!

The third-party "Mistwalker" name is going to slapped on first-party Microsoft-developed RPGs.

That counts as "second party" right?

(Seriously. I mean, "second party" doesn't actually mean anything. It just a media/marketing term that gets slapped onto anything that doesn't fit into either of the traditional first/third party divisions.)
Title: RE: Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on April 08, 2005, 03:17:12 PM: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/08/news_6121939.html

So it's a legit list, give or take one or two names maybe. The list looks impressive, but as others have said, there aren't any shockers considering the Xbox's list of supporters. More important are the games, which may initially be generation-stradling multiplatform for many of these publishers. Perhaps they have a few more surprise publishers/developers to reveal--otherwise the comments about huge Japanese support will seem a bit over-hyped.
Title: RE:Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: Savior on April 08, 2005, 05:09:51 PM: While more guys might be added. Tecmos team Ninja has already said they would develop for the strongest system. So they might loose developers sooner than later too
Title: RE: Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: ruby_onix on April 08, 2005, 06:15:00 PM: So the two lists aren't "third party" and "first/second party".

They're "will eventually support" and "currently working on" lists for the Xbox2.

It doesn't look nearly as good in that light.
Title: RE:Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: Noble~Feather on April 08, 2005, 06:36:45 PM: It hurts me to see Rare on that list... imagine: this will be the first 3D generation for Nintendo to lack ALL Rare magic.

It saddens me.

To me, it just seems that Microsoft already owns half of Nintendo.
Title: RE: Microsoft reveals Xbox 360 developers?
Post by: vudu on April 11, 2005, 08:46:23 AM: Actually, GameCube lacked all Rare magic.