First, making sure that we had key first-party games to drive the hardware.

In part, the company needed to have more big first-party games and digital offerings ready to go when the machine arrived, he said.

The Wii is also the only place you’ll find Nintendo’s famed first-party games.

WizKids produces both licensed and first-party games.

Stack-Up is considered by collectors to be one of the rarest first-party games for the NES.

The platform is built on open web standards and provides community features integrated into and between GoldFire Studio's first-party games.

Sony will not restrict the sale of used PlayStation 4 games, nor will it prevent sharing your first-party games.

The Wii’s library of shovelware rivals the original PlayStation’s, and Nintendo’s first-party games have been in a creative rut for years.

Its first-party games were developed in studios in Helsingborg, Sweden, and Manchester, England.

The changes will be at the fringes - through the DSi shop, and the possibility that some first-party games will be "enhanced" for the DSi.

Consoles from Nintendo's rivals in the post-SNES era had always enjoyed much stronger third-party support than Nintendo, which relied more heavily on first-party games.

In South Korea, the average attach rate of PlayStation Vita owners is 6 first-party games per console, or 10 games per console when including third-party titles.

And this raises an interesting question, says Gartenberg: Will Apple delve even further into the games business and begin making more first-party games, like Sony and Nintendo?

Although the engine is different, Labyrinth shared code and file formats with the later XFERPLAY engine and graphical resources with several later first-party games.

The music game genre has been evolving since "PaRappa The Rapper" launched for the original PlayStation in the mid-1990s, according to Michael Johnson, director of first-party games at Microsoft.

The game came out in Japan on July 14, 1998, but its North American release suffered from a three-month delay due to Nintendo's policy of spacing the release of first-party games out evenly.

Reviews by 'official' console magazines, such as Nintendo Power, Official Playstation Magazine, or Official Xbox Magazine, are considered to be biased toward games on their own console, and toward first-party games.

Further details on launch day games were announced too with New Super Mario Bros. U and Nintendo Land announced as the only first-party games available on launch day; Pikmin 3 having slipped to 2013.

In 1994, prior to the launch, Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln emphasized the quality of first-party games, saying "... we're convinced that a few great games at launch are more important than great games mixed in with a lot of dogs."

The series also has a strong line-up of first-party titles due to Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, a group of fifteen first-party developers owned by Sony Computer Entertainment which are dedicated to developing first-party games for the series.

And certainly with the upcoming launch of "Starfox 64 3D" plus "Pokemon" plus the two Mario games, we think we've got a great lineup of first-party games that will drive the install base and then certainly there is strong support by third party publishers as well.

However, Nintendo did continue support of the NES for about three years after the September 1991 release of the Super NES, with the NES's final first-party games being Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II and Wario's Woods.