I'm playing with the rules that have been already determined long before you bro

It is a business term nothing more nothing less.  Like i said you can pay around with it but you stil are not changing what it means.  That is ok though, go have fun in your thread.  Not going to argue with you, you read the meaning now it is up to you to determine whether you can justify what you said.

Pretty useless term if you ask me. If you want to talk about a big budget game, then say "big budget." AAA is an informal term with no definitive, objective definition. There's no point in using such an ambiguous word when you have much easier and straightforward alternatives.

I expect more out of you Jay.  You are by far one of the most intelligent posters on here and then say that AAA is not straight forward?  It means high budget.  Not sure how that isnt straight forward.  This is something that businesses use.  The only reason we as gamers get excited about AAA games is because they are usually of high quality which is why many people have the misconception it has to deal with ratings.  For example Crysis2 is a AAA game but failed to deliver to gamers.

AAA goes with other things like how many studens go to a specific school.  AAA would be a school with a high populated school and then you have AA schools etc.  Isn't that straight forward as well? Yes. 

To say it is useless is strange coming from you though.  It's a business term and it shocks me how little people know how businesses work.

It's just like any word in the dictionary or slang terms.  They are not always straightforward but has a definitive meaning

Actually the terminology probably originated with gamers, and was later adopted by companies. Which as companies are apt to do corrupted the meaning. I remember using the designation in gaming chat rooms twenty years ago long before I ever heard a company refer to its product as AAA. The most basic definition would be Score, Budget, and Popularity. The game should be critically acclaimed, have a large budget which makes it a big game, and should be front and center in the minds of the gaming public. Obviously what makes a certain game AAA can be disputed if say you don't personally think that a game was big enough, or didn't score well enough.

That said if we just accept that a game is AAA, because a developer says so. Then we should just stop using the term, because at that point it just becomes meaningless jargon. We should never allow any developer to determine for us what is in fact good. Which is something that AAA used to be synonymous for. Not just something that is good, but a game that is straight up awesome, and something you should really think about playing.

Even if the original posters definition were the valid one. It shouldn't be the one we as gamers should ever accept, and we most certainly aren't obligated to do so. Developers would like nothing better then to create the impression that their own game already has a stamp of high approval. Without ever having to prove that out in the market place. I reject that just on principle alone. Success must be earned, and not just conjured up by hitting a button three times.

A developer can get one A for the time and effort they put into the game, but those other two letters belong firmly with us the gamers. We decide if it is a high quality game, and we decide if it is going to sell well or not. I reject the original posters definition, and the source for that definition also. The term AAA means something, and it isn't a bunch of mindless advertising bullshit. They don't just get the title. It is something they should have to earn.

Wasn't Skyward sword one considering the budget?

I'll have to go with Jay on this one. I don't think AAA can just mean big budget. I've always thought that it had several meanings to it.

The term AAA is borrowed from the credit rating agencies. The AAA rating is the highest possible rating. So a game that is called AAA is a game that is guaranteed to make money. Nothing more.

I disagree with this. When the industry says AAA, they know we anticipate a high quality, possibly cutting edge game.

This definition implies any game with a big investment is AAA.

Amen. I'd like to see it disappear altogether.