| couchmonkey said: put on your tinfoil hats! I believe the term AAA is marketing nonsense used to cow hardcore gamers into buying big industry games. If you think too hard about it, you might be brainwashing yourself. I thougt it would be more interesting to know how the term originated. I found one answer online from someone who claimed to work at EA. He said in the mid 90s they had a meeting where the presenter claimed nbig budget, AAA games were thenonly hits, backed up with data from the previous year that showed the low budget, "B" games all failed badly. It seems like a plausible answer, how it got out into the minds of gamers, the thread failed to answer, but maybe it was more organic than I suggested above, e.g. maybe devs started using it in interviews with media. I feel like I started seeing it used often after Wii and DS launched, but that may be confirmation bias since I am a Nintendo bot. Sorry no link, I'm on my ancient Samsung tablet, the origin thread is on gamedev.stackexchange -131731
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Interesting. I've never heard anything on the origin of the term.
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