Who do you think will be the first third party developer that......

[Parokki]

This thread looks like it's suffering from how AAA is a stupid term that means something different to everyone who hears it.

Is the criteria good reviews? RE4 has 91 on Metacritic, while at least Zack&Wiki, Guiter Hero 3, and soon Rock Band are over 85. I've seen people call Ratchet and Uncharted on the PS3 AAA, so clearly games under 90 still count.

Big budget? Everyone knows games on the Wii cost a lot less to produce than the other consoles, but nobody seems to be quite sure how much. Ultimately these numbers are extremely hard to find, and are a very poor way to evaluate a game's quality, so I'm going to reject this answer. If you're looking for serious effort by a publisher's best dev teams, then there are several of those already, althought mostly from smaller companies.

High sales? There is already one game at 3M+, one at 2M+, and half a dozen others at 1M+. That's a helluva lot better than what you'd think from the way some people talk, and again a lot of games that sold under 1M on the PS3 get referred to as AAA.

My personal preference is to use AAA as a category for the very best games on a console. Thus, the question would be: "Are there any third party titles amongst the Wii's AAA games?"

I would say no.

While there are many great third party games on the Wii like Zack&Wiki and No More Heroes, they're clearly on a lower tier when compared to some of Nintendo's own first party games. Many of them would probably be AAA on a console with lower standards like the PS3, but don't quite measure up to the trinity of Galaxy/Twilight Princess/Brawl.

Is this a problem? I would say no, but the reason for it is kinda long, I'm going more and more off-topic by the word, and everyone ignores my posts anyway, so I don't feel like explaning. =P