Too Human is awesome fool.

What about Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, or Guitar Hero/Rock Band games? Or Okami?

A lot of people prefer Tatsunoko vs. Capcom over Street Fighter IV, I would think it's AAA, especially since it's a major Japanese title which did see WW sales (Unlike XenoBlade).

Also those Music games are still high budget are they not?

As for Okami, port or not, the game itself on PS2 was a AAA game and disolved Clover____ Studios because they ran out of $$$, and it didn't sell as well as they needed it to.

well... I'm thinking if "Sonic and Mario on the olimpic games" should be considered as AAA 3rd party games...

Very few AAA games indeed, at least they sold very well though.

What about Tales of Graces? That had pretty high production values from what I've seen.

I'd suggest adding Rayman Origins, though it's not exclusive to Wii and may not sell as well on the console because of it, it is still definitely a game Ubi want to sell, and all reviews so far are in agreement about its quality. It's also a smart move by them considering the amount of dough Nintendo have been raking in with reviving 2D platformers, if a bit late to the game.

But there really aren't many at all. In fact, when you look at games publishers were trying to get us to believe were AAA efforts, the picture becomes even more cynical.

EA had NBA Jam, which personally I think could have gone well had it received the development and marketing attention it deserved. Seemed to be a good fit for Wii, but we all know how EA managed to destroy the game's initial appeal even before launch.

Silent Hill could have been considered a AAA effort if it was a bigger franchise, but as it is I think it doesn't make the cut.

Then there was Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, which was suggested by Capcom Unity to be a AAA exclusive, as if it could compete on the same level as SF4 or MvC3... HA! It seems that more often than not, by AAA Capcom mean the game isn't significantly gimped in one way or another, or that the fundamentals are sound, if not extravagant. Another words a "good" game...

2009 also saw a dual slap in the face in Rail-Shooter form from EA and Capcom once again, Capcom even going so far as saying RE:DC was considered a top-tier effort internally... how did they get that idea? Is it because the game had pre-rendered cutscenes??

Then ofcourse there were others from Ubisoft such as Rabbids Go Home (not sure it had the marketing of a AAA game) and PoP Forgotten Sands (also, not enough marketing, maybe they assumed the movie would take care of that). Even Square managed to horrifically drop the ball with their Wii releases. THQ had the joke that was Deadly Creatures, followed by the surprisingly good de Blob, but somehow they managed to nip that series in the bud, along with its developer...

All in all some very interesting business decisions this gen.

Corrected mistake ;)

That list in itself shows why noone cared about releasing AAA games for the Wii. Why bother if all you can get is 1-2 milion sales ?

For the same development + marketing budget you can probably make 10-20 showelware games which will sell better without effort and risk.

Yeah, what saddens me most is how few original IPs Wii saw from big third parties. By that I mean fun, unique concepts with enough budget and thought put into them to go on and become successful AAA  or even AA franchises. De blob could have done this, as well as perhaps a few others such as Zack & Wiki (a motion plus sequel which addressed the first game's problems would have been nice), Little King's Story (again, improved sequel), Red Steel (a 3rd game building upon the things the second got right and adding more content and replay value), Epic MIckey, hell even Crystal Bearers could have been turned into something worth playing with some effort. The only franchise I feel has truly grown on the platform is the Trauma series, which while fun and unique, is far from AA or AAA.

It is curious that the biggest Nintendo AAA game ever produced (not counting Zelda: Skyward Swords) turned into a real turd. I hope it never makes it to one million sales. So yes AAA = Blockbuster in terms of cinema industry (quality other than production values means nothing)

Keep telling yourself.