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curl-6 on 12 April 2015
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outlawauron said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah, XCX ain't AAA; I doubt it cost a quarter of something like Assassin's Creed, COD, or GTA.

Mind you, I don't think this is a bad thing; I find most AAA games tiresome in their bloated, shallow excesses.

I was just being silly, but I do also agree that this isn't in the same category as those releases. The only JRPGs that come close to AAA fame/infamy is the console Final Fantasy titles.

That said, Xenoblade is certainly not cheap to develop. It's going to be at least a quarter of AC I think.

Ah, my bad, I am bad at detecting non-seriousness. ;)

XCX is quite possibly the most expensive game Nintendo has made to date, but I doubt it comes remotely close to what the big Western blockbusters cost.

I don't think any dev or publisher out there would be willing to pump a AAA budget into this kind of game, as they'd know they wouldn't make their money back.