Editing Video game developer (section)

===Second-party developers{{anchor|Second-party_developer}}===
Second-party developer is a colloquial term often used by gaming enthusiasts and media to describe game studios that take development contracts from [[platform holders]] and develop games exclusive to that platform, i.e. a non-owned developer making games for a first-party company.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Next Generation 1996 Lexicon A to Z: Second Party|magazine=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=15 |publisher=[[Imagine Media]]|date=March 1996|page=40}}</ref> As a balance to not being able to release their game for other platforms, second-party developers are usually offered higher royalty rates than third-party developers.<ref name=NGen30/> These studios may have exclusive publishing agreements (or other business relationships) with the platform holder, but maintain independence so that upon completion or termination of their contracts, they are able to continue developing games for other publishers if they choose to. For example, while [[HAL Laboratory]] initially began developing games on personal computers like the [[MSX]], they became one of the earliest second-party developers for Nintendo, developing exclusively for Nintendo's consoles starting with the Famicom, though they would self-publish their mobile games.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://kotaku.com/the-studio-behind-smash-bros-and-kirby-hal-laboratory-1687219609 | title = The Studio Behind Smash Bros. And Kirby, HAL Laboratory Turns 35 Today | first = Mike | last = Fahey | date = February 21, 2015 | access-date = March 25, 2021 | work = [[Kotaku]] | archive-date = November 6, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211106052019/https://kotaku.com/the-studio-behind-smash-bros-and-kirby-hal-laboratory-1687219609 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Devore |first=Jordan |date=2018-02-26 |title=HAL Laboratory's first mobile game is out today |url=https://www.destructoid.com/hal-laboratorys-first-mobile-game-is-out-today/ |url-status=live |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=Destructoid |language=en-CA |archive-date=2022-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819200051/https://www.destructoid.com/hal-laboratorys-first-mobile-game-is-out-today/ }}</ref>