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Landguy said:

That logic is always going to be flawed.  If only a certain group of gamers get to determine what a AAA(cost lots of money to be made) or "really good" game is, then we have to define who makes it into that group.

AAA to a 6-12 yr old is completely different than that to a 15-50 yr old person.  Heck, inside the 15-50 yr old group it will break down into 2-4 groups.

I think the Lego games are lower tier AAA games.  THey are generally released on all platforms and have decent budgets and are well advertised while licensing large name properties to be based upon.


And this is exactly what I mean.  If "AAA" is different things to different people, then by its very nature is always going to be confusing as to what it actually means.  If you read the link Green_Sky posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_Gaming_industry

 

"Since AAA its an acronym, each "A" has a meaning regarding an overall quality. One "A" is given to games that are consider to be "Critical Success" (critics or reviewers give it a perfect, or almost perfect score), another "A" is used when a game brings "innovative Gameplay" (a gaming characteristic so unique that differentiate the game from all the rest), and finally, the last "A" defines "Financial Success" (game sales that generate a huge profit)."

 

By that definition, couldn't something like Towerfall Ascension be classified as "AAA"?  It is a critical success; it brings innovative gameplay and if it sells well, will have commercial success.  And that's exactly the kind of game this article is saying is a "problem" with the PS4 because there's plenty of that but not enough "AAA" games... which doesn't make any sense, because it would be an AAA game.

And in turn, things like Forza & InFAMOUS could never be AAA games because they fail the "innovative gameplay" part of the description.  Which is complete nonsense.

What the article was trying to say is that an AAA game is a retail title with high production values, I would assume.  Except LEGO doesn't really; these games get churned out quickly by Traveller's Tales and never run up a particularly high budget.  Putting it in the same ballpark as Watch Dogs is ridiculous.  



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Buys console, whines about lack if games in the first 4 months, imagine he had bought a wiiu or 3ds at launch, he would probably died



kirby007 said:
bananaking21 said:
infamous just released yesterday. geez.

you didn;t read anything


no no. i read the start, then when he complain about lack of triple AAA ecxlusives i stoped reading. Killzone and infamous are released. there is Battlefield, Call of Duty, Fifa, Assassins Creed, NBA, Thief, final fantasy 14, madden and need for speed. so in 4 months he has all those to play. did he? there is no lack of AAA games on PS4. is just that we all love to get giddy and hyped for exclusives to release every few weeks, when reality is nobody has the time to play all the games on the system. 



Wow, so the consoles hasn't amassed a huge library of amazing exclusive AAA games after 4 months of its life? I'm shocked, this is so unexpected and something completely unique to the PS4.

Seriously this article is stupid and has to be written by someone that has never experienced a console launch before, the amount of games that can be considered amazing next gen experiences that you need to get the new system for, is almost always close to zero in the first months and this isn't different for the PS4 or the X1 (and no, a PC and soon to be 360 title is not a game like that either, no matter how many people buy the console for it).



Stopped reading here:

"Despite all the great things I can say about the system, right now, the PS4 is failing in one key department: exclusive triple-A titles, and really, triple-A titles in general."

Because I doesn't sound like this owner has been through any launch period before. This is straight-up par for the course.



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As opposed to what....xb1?



EA secured rights to titanfall, so I would think twice before trying to use it as an example. Good game and yes u need an X1 to play it on this gen, but the same can be said for Infamous, difference being that the Infamous franchise is exclusively Playstation.

The X1 has one more exclusive retail game than PS4 and no more lined up for the future than Sony does (both appear to be on the ball). However PS has way more dowloadable titles in the arsenal. Overall the PS4 has more games and more diversety.

We are at a point where we don't know what the future holds, but we know both teams are hard at work. E3 will speak volumes and I feel we will see wonderful things from both sides.



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I hear you. The boring part of PS right now is that they do not tease anything while the competition teased a huge Japan Game (rumored to be by platinum) and also that they are going to show so much new stuff at E3 that they had to remove some to fit in a 90min timeframe.

What do we get as teaser from ps? Not much.



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welcome home ps4 and X1

Does he expect a new exclusive every month?!



    

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I call bullshit. Where did he get his standards. How many AAA exclusive games were there last gen per month? On any system for that matter. Sounds like someone who bought in very late last gen and got all the exclusives at once.



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