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[Scisca]

Kresnik said:

Scisca said:

No there is no such mindset. That indie clay game (can't remember the title) is getting a retail release, but nobody is gonna call it AAA. Most Vita retail games probably aren't AAA games (Unit 13, the golf and fishing games, etc.). When I say AAA I mean certain quality, size, graphical fidelity and general scope that in most cases requires money, time and workforce from the developer. And those games are usually still released in retail, the main exception here would be Japanese games in the West. Look at the list of games that I gave instead of clinging to a boring and far-fetched "retail doesn't mean AAA" argument.

Goodness me, calm down.  

All I mean is, "AAA" is a construct mostly of this generation of games that have massive development budgets and massive advertising budgets that require a large amount of copies sold to break even.  Stranger's Wrath is neither of those things.  It's a moderately-budgeted game from a previous generation.  Duke Nukem 3D is a moderatedly budgeted game from a previous generation which is getting remade for Vita.  Would you consider that an "AAA Sega Saturn title"?

Regardless, if you want some actual AAA games like you listed (such as Elder Scrolls or Dragon Age) then your best bet is send money to Sony.  Just send them some money directly and include a note that says "here's some money to moneyhat Bethseda/EA/Rockstar" because there's no chance of these games coming across on their own at the moment.

I'm calm

I really can't understand how you can put ports of old games that used to be top-of-the-line games with biggest budgets for their time and indies in the same bucket. These are two totally different things for me. Is Jak & Daxter Collection an indie game for you?

I know that would be my best bet, but I'm just gonna stick to the second best one - buying big games, thus doing my best to support devs making big games for Vita. That's why I plan to buy Batman next week and Spiderman... whenever I find a copy I'm not gonna be wasting this money on smaller games, cause that would impact my purchases of bigger games. My budget isn't unlimited and there are other things than just games to spend my money on I have to choose something and I choose to support big AAA games, cause I want more of them, not more of 5-10 times overpriced indies.