Nier Automata shows that "AAA" games can be made inexpensively

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Started by Legend, Feb 16, 2018, 06:18 AM

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ethomaz

Feb 18, 2018, 01:25 PM Last Edit: Feb 18, 2018, 01:31 PM by ethomaz
Well AAA is an informal term meaning different things to different companies.  The meaning also changes over time. 
Is it really different?

Since I play games AAA means big budget indifferent of the quality or success of the game.

What changed of course is the development costs... so an AAA game 10 years ago could be $50 million but today it is $100m.

The best example successful AAA game in every generation is GTA... it has insane budget but sell insanely proportional (or way over that). GTA V budget was around $265 million but you know how it sales turned.

Edit - Fixed GTAV budget... $250m to $265m.