Mar1217 said:
There's that,but there's still more to it. Popularity, sales, ambition(scope) are other important factors to take into consideration. |
AAA stands for: A lot of time, A lot of resources, and A lot of money.
So, essentially what STAGE said. Being popular and high selling is usually the result of a title being AAA, but it is not what makes it a AAA. Many AAA titles are not particularly ambitious, and are often clones of other big budget games with no ambition to go outside the formula.
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