pokoko said:
I used to be the buyer for a video and game rental store. Before people corrupted the meaning of the phrase, it had to do with investment potential. Yes, exactly like how "AAA" is used in financial matters. I used to get catalogs from major wholesale video and game distributors (oddly, there is a porn distributor that still sends me catalogs). Many of the games were rated with AAA, AA, etc. It was a way for retailers who didn't know much about gaming to select key releases with a high ROI. It had absolutely nothing to do with how much a game cost to make but instead with how much a game was projected to earn. It's kind of funny now to see people calling big budget flops AAA. I remember specifically some 3DS titles being rated AAA. I remember Pokemon being AAA and, I'm pretty sure, Kirby. It wasn't rare to see games like Cooking Mama rate an AAA, as well. So, yeah, this is really a case where people who didn't know what a term really meant creating their own definition and then everyone else repeating it as gospel until it effectively replaced the original definition. |
wow, very intersting! Do you mind if I ask when you were doing this? Sounds like about 5-10 years ago?
@GoOnkid: I agree with your comment that AAA is used by marketing to impky a game is "best" quality, I also feel like it would originally be most attributed to big westen publishers like EA! and Activision, thoug it has spread to pretty general usage.
Last edited by couchmonkey - on 27 July 2018