The term AAA** belongs to the games with the highest budgets and the only companies which will be able to afford them are third parties who can whore the development costs over multiple systems and somehow swing the $50M#2b development costs  on a consistant basis and with really big productions easily topping over $150M, Call of Duty 11 anyone?

Nintendo made the third parties look bad because they split the market share down the middle 50:50. On the other hand they also made exclusives look good because third parties could only sell to between two consoles and theres a reasonable overlap with multi console ownership. If Nintendo makes third parties look good then third parties will make exclusives look bad because they'll pay for far more advertising and they will be able to afford a far larger art budget.

*Unless one console manufacturer gets >60% market share.

**Nintendo games are 'arty' and therefore will be cheap enough to make because they had the foresight to design their games in a way that they could scale to the next generation without incurring major cost increases. They won't count as AAA games.

I agree. I think all games will be able to support a wide range of battery types.

Anyway, since the Wii 2 will likely be slightly more powerful than the PS360, and the PS4720 will also be slightly more powerful than the PS360, you're increasing your selling base by 50%. The push for graphics probably won't go much further, and dev costs for the same level of graphics will fall. So not many games will have big budgets, that's true, but you won't be able to tell the difference - a medium budget game next gen will be equivalent to a high-budget game this gen.

Not enough money, not nearly enough talent.

Their will be more outsourcing, like Ubisoft and EA are doing basically creating more studios in India/shanghai so they can work on some stuff like the Assasin's creed 2 environements and it saved them quite some time/money.

You know they said this kind of stuff already doing during the PS1/N64 era and I expect next generation we will see the prices of games go up 70$/70 Euro and more devs who will work on next gen Xbla/PSN/wiiware.

i see your point, nintendo is doomed.

Their will be more outsourcing, like Ubisoft and EA are doing basically creating more studios in India/shanghai so they can work on some stuff like the Assasin's creed 2 environements and it saved them quite some time/money.

You know they said this kind of stuff already doing during the PS1/N64 era and I expect next generation we will see the prices of games go up 70$/70 Euro and more devs who will work on next gen Xbla/PSN/wiiware.

I define AAA games as peanut butter. So no games will ever count as AAA.

While I admit decent peanut butter simulators could be written, they will never reach the true power of the real thing. They will be BBB games at best.

as long as Sony is still in the console making market, there will be tons of AAA exclusives

I'm not too worried as I haven't really been impressed by any 'AAA' games this gen, going by your definition

Good way of manuevering around the elephant in the room, Squill