A $20 million budget is still considered AAA. It's in range of "low budget AAA game" category, but it's still AAA.

Are you replying in the correct thread?

Totally different story. Should have exempted RE and MG. I'm talking about those really gritty FPS like CoD or GOW.

Metacritic has nothing to do with AAA status.

It sounds like Ubisoft was thinking the Wii U would be much more of a hit than it turned out to be.  Even if the attach rate for Zombi U went down with more console sales, which is what usually happens, a larger installed base could have easily turned the game into a success.  I also get the impression that Ubisoft drank Nintendo's Koolaid about the Wii U being a popular console for core gamers.

I'm really not sure why a lot of people here are criticizing Ubisoft and saying that their goals were unreasonable when many of the same people were expecting the Wii U to be a LOT more successful.  If Nintendo's target numbers had been even close to correct, we'd be reading a different story right now.

strange, I thought I read somewhere that a zombi u 2 prototype was in developement?

Wasn't this a port? resident evil wii U edition?

'fraid not. Plus, RE hasn't been like this in a while.

Well it depends on how you define AAA of course.

Pesrsonally I agree that AAA should only be the real big games.

But I think it's assumed in the industry, at least at the beginning of current gen, that an AAA game is a typical high production game that takes a 100 member team 2 years to develop.And that means $20 million budget and up.

Nowaydays those $20 mill games are dime a dozen so perhaps we should call them just AA games, while the truly big guys are AAA (BF, Halo, COD, Grand Turismo, GTA, Assassin's Creed, Metal Gear Solid etc).

I think that was a rumor, not an actual confirmation from Ubisoft. 

It's the highest selling third party game on the wii U there is no way it didn't turn a profit this guy must be lying because he hates nintendo