Are we seeing the return of AA games??

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SuperNova said:

Nuvendil said:

Dust is indie.  Indie is determined by the status of the studio in the course of development, not the means of distribution, these are video games not books.  Dust was developed by Dean Dodrill independently and the distributed by Microsoft on Xbox Live Arcade.  It was not funded and backed by Microsoft.  If it were, it would not now be on everything except a toaster and certainly not on PS4.

Ori, on the other hand, is more grey as I believe they may have been funded by Microsoft and not just under contract with regards to distribution.

Technicallythe Witcher series (at least the Witcher III), wich are definitely AAA titles are Indie games if I remember correctly. They are self published by CD Project red. It's the funding method that makes a game Indie or not. If it's self-funded or kickstarted it's indie.

And they've really risen to the cause and filled a lot of gaps in the gaming landscape.

CD Project doesn't count as indie as they are a publicly listed publisher.