Kenology said:
Carl2291 said:
Khuutra said:
Carl2291 said:
I think when a company refers to a AAA project they mean it will get outstanding reviews all round and sell well at the same time. |
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.
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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.
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Carl, in the future, if you're gonna use terms like "majority" or "minority" or any type of quantifiable term, you should always have data to back it up. Like, numbers. You have to produce data to show how you know that the majority of people prefer this/that or take stance x,y, or z.
Just a lil' something my professor in Research Methods told me.
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Which is funny because he's defending using "AAA" as shorthand for a game with a "quantifiable" aggregate score of 90 or above. Saying the definition of a AAA game is one with "a big budget that's expected to sell" is far from definative or concise.
