Global lifetime sales: Uncharted 4 PS4 vs Halo 5 Xbox1

[DivinePaladin]

Intrinsic said:

DivinePaladin said:

AAA is a game that was traditionally maxed out at $60m with marketing included to me. Anything aiming for $100m development only, or alternatively something with a team size of over 250, is deserving of its own category so that we don't skew what was traditionally AAA. Especially since Intrinsic then said Persona 5 was AAA despite being a low budget developer, and threw it in with something like CoD. 

 

A and AA have traditionally been lower budget titles that are now being absorbed by indie budgets. The Witness is right around A/AA's boundary. 

please that doesn't even make sense. Traditionally? in relation to what? who set these traditions. Once upon a time game development maxed out $10M. And that was considered AAA. but since HD gaming came along and the quality of assets, tools and programmers becoming so much higher, that has gone up to $50M+. 

AAA has never been a numerical value but rather a subset of games that command the highest production budgets. So I have no idea what tradition has to do with anythjng. 

you are completely right about the AA/A games tho, but even compared to the last the typcal AA game can cost upwards of 5-$10M today. 

You don't just get to make up ur own category cause the team of devs that made it is bigger or a lot more money than you feel should go into making a game goes into its production.  If the norm is that most big games average $100M today then that just means that that's the new AAA. And what was triple A last gen goes down to AA and so on. 

But what you're referring to are NOT most big games. You're referring to a sect of games even bigger than previous standards allowed. If you want to put something like Persona in the same league as GTA, by all means do, but don't come to me and act like I'M the one not making sense by denoting these super-blockbusters differently because they're an entirely different beast. 

 

If you want to make the highest tier AAA, then drop down most of your AAA games to AA so that they fit correctly. Don't just make AAA stand for a range of $180m in the budget.