Five reasons why NSMB Wii will easily sell 11m copies within its first year

[Khuutra]

Carl2291 said:

Khuutra said:

The latter half is true but the former has nothing to do with the development of the game: AAA just means a game htat they put an enormous amount of resources behind and place bets on it making them a lot of money. Wii Music last year was one of Nintendo's AAA games, but it underperformed for sales.

I dunno, i still think reviews count towards the AAA status personally.

There is no real definition for a AAA game, people just have their own stance on what a game needs to consist of to reach that criteria. The majority though, tend to say reviews are what makes a game a AAA game.

You mean the majority at VGChartz, which adopted the AAA designation (which actually does have a definition in the business world as being a top-tier project in terms of budget and manpower and investment) and applied Metacritic to it.

Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports Resort? Both of those are AAA titles that have sold over a million since Brawl. Ditto Wii Music, though Nintendo wanted more out of that.