I hope they get a bit stronger again, but I am not sure that the current market allows for them between live-service game sucking up all the money and the indie space being strong and taking the cheaper area. Sure, there certainly is room if you look at price alone, there is space between indie prices and AAA prices. I just don't know if there is much market around for that in terms of people actually taking that middle road.

Its only made by 30 people? O_O
That's indie sized imo.
Game looks good though, sometimes its not about numbers, but the quality of the people doing the work.

No, there won't be a surge of medium budget games, if anything $60 might become the new AA price.

Shuhei Yoshida had hands on with the game, he said they are beyond productive at the studio and will become an example to others. This is the experiment that Ninja Theory tried to run with Hellblade 1 back in the day but actually done right, it seems as they really are leaning towards the AAA side of the fence here, which I suppose is easier to accomplish with turn based but still impressive. 

What I can say is that good games will keep finding success while garbage will keep failing and that's a good thing.

It's also about how far technology advanced with game engines. Not too long ago, 30 people wouldn't be able to dream of doing that.

It could be argued that by modern standards, Nintendo are an AA dev.

I doubt anything they've made comes close to the budget and manpower involved in making something like COD, GTA, Horizon, Spiderman, God of War, etc.

In this capacity they've had immense success and show there is a market for less extravagant experiences.

Okay. Very varied views on this, the thread definitely changed my opinion with some great points. Probably gonna be worse for dev trying to enter a space like that and indeed @curl-6 Nintendo are AA by all definitions aside from the AAA prices which makes them more AAA than anything, just poorly invested AAA. 

Poorly invested? They sell more software than most AAA devs while spending less, hardly poor investment.

They could up the production value for that exact reason.