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0 pointspassword3214y ago0 comments

There is an extreme demand. Many franchises like Pokemon are still breaking sales records along with consoles.

https://gamerant.com/pokemon-legends-arceus-sales-records/

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klohto4y ago· 5 in thread

Pokemon isn’t AAA

sk0g4y ago

Not sure what definition you are using to exclude Pokemon, but Wikipedia's [0] definition certainly would classify it as AAA [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_publisher#Major_pub...

onlyrealcuzzo4y ago

I think AAA is more about budget.

I thought the budget for AAA games was higher, and I thought the budget for Pokemon (handheld games) would be lower.

But turns out Pokemon Sword and Shield cost >$20M to make, and AAA is low 10s of millions. Definitely AAA by every measure.

AAA is more of an investment term, how much money and how reliably is this project expected to return? Pokémon very reliably produces a ton of sales and revenue, so is AAA even if their development budget/quality doesn't look AAA at all. Normally you need a high budget to ship games that will reliably sell, but Pokémon managed to get there via branding instead.

What, there's a AAAA category now?

sk0g4y ago

The good thing about arbitrary labels is you can apply any one you want :)

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