| Spindel said: A question for everyone here: is BotW AAA or not? Lets consider it was made with about 10 % of the budget of a Assassins Creed, FarCry or GTA. |
No it wasn't, it was reported BOTW would need at least 2 million sales to break even back in June 2016, and from then to release it may have increased, especially as this may not include marketing costs, as they probably wouldn't know how much they'd be spending on marketing 9 months before release. As it's a first party title let's assume Nintendo receive on average $40 per copy sold, that would give BOTW a budget of $80 Million.
The budget for FarCry 5 was roughly $80-$130 million according to this article.
BOTW was an expensive game, more expensive than most games that would be considered AAA. It's not just the top 0.1% that counts.
