Yea not much in there haha. Just an argument over the definition of "AAA status" which Kluutru is right and everyone else is wrong. Why people quote metacritic and reviews as the meaning of AAA is beyond me. It's a term companies use to denote large properties they think are going to bring in massive sales. Generally that also means they will put a lot of money into the project which usually makes them have a high budget but not necessarily a part of the definition. Reviews will not maintain the status but sales can determine if it actually should have been AAA status.
As for people going to eat crow, well I'm sure there is a lot haha. I remember outlaw telling me how crazy it was for Mario to sell 11 million within a year and well probably shouldn't bring that back up to him haha. I'm sure there are alot of other people who didn't see it as likely... I know I really didn't at first. But after the first week sales it didn't take long to see that 11 million was going to be no problem.