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Will it? All my PS friends scoff at the idea of playing AA games. It's like trying to convince a Marvel CU stan to watch Rebel Ridge or The Order.
MicroSoft are making AAAA games these days.
Jokes aside, Obsidian, Double Fine, Undead Labs, inXile, Compulsion all are AA studios. Nintendo also puts out tons of AA stuff. It really is only Sony 1st party that doesn't. It shouldn't even be a controversial point since it's plainly there for people to see. But now at least we have the guy on the inside explicitly stating it for people that can't see.
Those are bad examples since they're all indie games. Signalis was made by 2 devs (husband and wife).
And you know what? Good. We aren't paying half a grand for "AA" games. I would argue that such a market never existed in the way people think it did. And those all-mid games that did exist didn't sell.
Are Obsidian AA?
That's what a aa game is. AA doesn't corelate to the amount of people.
You leave out the most important key-factor:
There isn't. The industry is trying to figure out how to make AAA cheaper, not make AA.
AA gaming has completely collapsed in recent years. The idea that people should fund these games with basically zero ROI is insane.
That was a full-blooded AAA game.
Personally I would say so. Avowed is their best looking game by far but still made by less than 100 people. They automate things like animations for NPCs and facial lip sync instead of manually doing it and spending for all that staff. They've always been AA.
Small team, no huge budget. AA.
Avowed is a full AAA game. It had Times Square advertising ffs!
No it's not. 'AA' are mid-tier budget titles like Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Vampyr, etc.
I won't tell you what to think, but I totally disagree. That's what the whole "mild success" and lasting for 100 years comment was about.
Nope.
Yeah, and we'll see just how long Microsoft funds that mild success. Going "AA" worked very well for Tango Gameworks. Oh wait...
How ironic that the Switch's weak hardware turns into its strength and Switch 2 will eat well with PS4 ports
It's usually considered by overall budget, but where the lines are drawn is always in flux.
Part of the death of AA is the market leader only marketing the top of the top AAA budget stuff with their 1st party and skewing people's expectations. A lot of PS gamer taste has never been more conservative, so I agree with your previous post saying "good" in a sense. I think a lot of PS gamers do think that way, because they were taught to think that way just in the later PS4 / PS5 gen. Switch having a more broad selection of 1st party budget games I think also is what helps indie sales on that platform so much. The audience is more used to non-AAA games there.
AAA is generally defined currently 500+ member plus studios Astrobot was not that
It just means they are keeping expectations and budgets manageable, which is sensible business and I said so in the thread.
lol no
Astro Bot has +700 people credited on Moby Games.
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I always thought that AA and AAA are related only to the budget of a game. The price doesnt matter at all imho. If GTA would be sold for 40 bucks (wishful thinking i know) it doesnt make it an AA title, right!?
Budget of aaaa quality of aa
Slitterhead was sick. Imagine how insane it would have been if it had the budget of Gravity Rush 2. Would have been one of the best games this gen. They literally self-published it as a new studio, so they didn't have access to that kind of upper AA budget even but it's still really fun. I'm sure you didn't play it.
Development of Astro Bot started almost immediately after Astro's Playroom was completed, and took roughly three years with a development team of around 60 people. It is reportedly the largest game that Team Asobi has developed.Astro Bot has +700 people credited on Moby Games.
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JOIN ASTRO ON A SUPERSIZED SPACE ADVENTURE When the PS5® mothership is attacked by ASTRO’s long-standing galactic nemesis, scrambling its wires and scattering the crew throughout space, only ASTRO...
I completely understand, but the lines have become so blurred between indie, AA, and AAA that they are often difficult to discern.I always thought that AA and AAA are related only to the budget of a game. The price doesnt matter at all imho. If GTA would be sold for 40 bucks (wishful thinking i know) it doesnt make it an AA title, right!?
Its just difficult for me to discuss something useful here if no one even knows how AA is defined compared to AAA.
It undercuts my own point, but I'd categorize it as AA as well. Maybe AA+ if you want to get nerdy. Hellblade 2 also is AA+. Space Marine 2. There are some AA budget games with enough focus on graphical presentation to pass for AAA, but they aren't. Maybe Sony will at least do that much in the future. AAA appearance, but smaller teams and smaller scope games.I’m
Development of Astro Bot started almost immediately after Astro's Playroom was completed, and took roughly three years with a development team of around 60 people. It is reportedly the largest game that Team Asobi has developed
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As it should be. 8-16 hours games are perfect. Astro was what $60 at launch and was a 7-12 hour base game I don’t recall the price vs gameplay being an issue.
The problem is that Japan Studio had been around for more than 20 years by the time they closed shop, and this passionate fanbase elevated not a single one of their games. Gravity Rush 2 sold less than 900k by all estimates. They took 10 years on The Last Guardian, and then the game bombed.
