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EaglesEye379 on 17 November 2008
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Groucho said:

Man, I really find the stock definition of "AAA" on this site (90+ critic ratings) distasteful. Its completely meaningless, except from the perspective of a gamer, and often does not correlate with sales, profits, etc.

In the games industry, from the developer and publisher perspective, a title's "AAA" status is defined by its budget.

As far as sales (and IMO this site) should be concerned, "AAA" should be related to profit, profit margins, or at the very least gross income.

Review scores... that's just silly, although as a gamer, I appreciate a scores relevance with regards to artistic impact on the gaming community... but that's pretty subjective, and this is a sales site...

 

 I really find your stock definition of what VGChartz posters should talk about distasteful.

It would truly be a dark day indeed if margins are the ONLY metric for developers and publishers. I find it more and more comforting after reading your post that MS constantly quotes Metacritic scores in their PR now.