Your whole argument is that because Forza Horizon is a spin-off its not AAA.  You're saying because it didn't sell as well as the other Forza games that it's not AAA. You're wrong.

LBP Karting is so far from being a AAA game. It's not even in the same league as Forza Horizon. Why you would even bring that game up I don't even know. 

Here's a definition I found on what makes a AAA game.

A AAA game, or pronounced "triple-A game", is generally a title developed by a large studio, funded by a massive budget.

These games will have a marketing budget in the multiple-millions of dollars, and are planned to earn out in excess of one million titles sold. Investors/publishers expect a multiple-of-cost return on their investment. In order to recoup general development costs, publishers will generally produce the title for the major platforms (currently Xbox 360, PS3, and PC) to maximize profits, unless it is a console exclusive, in which case the console maker will pay for exclusivity to offset the loss of potential profit to the developer.

Now, the racing genre isn't what it used to be, so based on its sales I fully expect that the game sold within expectations and was profitable.

You brought up games like LBP Karting....do you think Sony expected sales in the millions for this? No. 

Oh boy... so anything anticipated to sell a million copies is AAA? That's probably means everything Sony has put out is a AAA game. This isn't helping your argument.

Lets just be done with this. You arguments just get worse and worse.

So spin-offs don't quality as AAA games? Great logic there.
Forza Horizon is still.....Forza. It still has cars, it still has races. It doesn't go to an entirely different genre.

Look at a Need For Speed franchise. There are so many. Underground, Most Wanted..etc. None of these are considered "spin-offs". They all sell on the Need For Speed name. They have the budgets, marketing and production values that make it a AAA game.

Publishers set sales expectations based on budget, popularity and production values. Pre-order data probably helps a lot.

I never said everything Sony puts out is a AAA game. Just because a game can crawl to 1m sales, or because it can be proftiable, it doesn't mean its AAA. Ridiculous. Now you're just being difficult

You don't have to say anymore. You already posted the definition of AAA.

Its all so clear now. This discussion is over.

Can you name me one spin off that was marked as a AAA product.  It seems like you forget that spin offs are done all the time and usaully with a smaller budget and smaller team.  Companies do this because they can reuse assets and code to change up a formula but these games are never considered to sell as many copies as the main one because they do not target the same group.

Here you are saying that Forza Horizon is Still Forza but by you saying that, it appears you haven't played either game.  The whole structure of Horizon is different than the main game and its not marketed as being the same.  It uses the same Name because gamers are brand focused a lot.

There is no spin off of Need for Speed games because they are all the same game.  Now if the developers made a Need for Speed game that was a racing simulation the that would be a spin off of the franchise.

that's like saying killzone will compete with halo

anyways pretty decent list, although it lacks a jrpg :(