Are Sucker Punch officially a AAA Studio?

[Ivanovic]

After the success of Ghost Of Tsushima, are they now in the big boys camp?

 

[TronLight]

They already were.

 

[Nateo]

what? they always were..

 

[Wise]

They always were what???

 

[toad02]

When where they not?

 

[shancake]

They literally have been since day one lol..

 

[janusff]

.... they have been?

 

[Deleted member 13645]

Haven't they always been? I certainly wouldn't have called the Infamous series AA games.

 

[DeepChord]

Indie at best

 

[Potterson]

In what world inFamous or even Ratchet games are not AAA? :P

 

[Turkoop]

lol, some people...

 

[Duxxy3]

I would have put them in the AAA camp with Infamous and Infamous 2.

 

[The_R3medy]

They have been over a decade and a half?

 

[DNAbro]

Always have been

AAA is budget

 

[reclaimerzzzzz]

I didn't realize they were anything but AAA.

 

[CalamityPixel]

I think you may have to re-evaluate whatever you think makes a studio AAA

 

[Thiago]

Huh?

 

[Bold One]

That garage outfit?

 

[Print_Dog]

Infamous was AAA back on PS3

 

[OnionPowder]

I've upgraded them from D to C after Ghost of Tsushima, maybe next time they can get a AA product

 

[Sleve McDichael]

... When were they not?
Even Sly Cooper I would call AAA, inFamous was definitely AAA.

 

[Raigor]

What?

They are not at the level of Santa Monica and Naughty Dog, but they are Guerrilla Games / Insomniac level.

 

[ascii42]

In what world inFamous or even Ratchet games are not AAA? :P

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Sucker Punch did Sly Cooper, not Ratchet & Clank.

 

[Com_Raven]

I mean, have you seen how Sony pushed the Infamous series?

 

[Maxime]

AAA is not a rank you get by leveling up, OP :P

 

[Rover_]

they are since day one back in 97

 

[Wishbone Ash]

In what world inFamous or even Ratchet games are not AAA? :P

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Ratchet? You mean Sly.

 

[black070]

While the team is surprisingly smaller than I thought (140 people worked on Ghost f Tsushima), they've always been a AAA studio.

 

[Damn Silly]

...did you think they weren't getting a budget before now?

 

[Sabretooth]

They don't have an itch.io page, do they?

 

[EagleClaw]

Maybe they are just AA+, but with a increasing "climbing rate".

 

[excaliburps]

What other said, they always were. :)

Ghost of Tsushima though, it's their best work so far. Pumped to see a sequel.

 

[wiggler]

This ain't baseball! AAA isn't some league or tier of dev, it literally just means big budget games.

 

[janusff]

now OP, if you were to ask if SP have ascended to the upper echelons of SIE studios where ND and SSM reside, then I would say...

not quite

 

[Apophis]

The term AAA refers to money spend on a game, not the quality

 

[nrtn]

Maybe...Infamous and GoT are pretty good indie games.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

I'm confused as to why this is even a discussion. The inFamous games were already AAA last gen.

 

[Deleted member 2254]

Sometimes I feel like this board needs a little lesson on what terms like AAA, GaaS and Teraflops mean. Because I've seen people throwing these terms around without really knowing what they mean.

 

[Raigor]

now OP, if you were to ask if SP have ascended to the upper echelons of studios where ND and SSM reside, then I would say...

not quite

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This.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

Maybe they are just AA+, but with a increasing "climbing rate".

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Definitely AAA

 

[MrCibb]

I'd say they're 3 and a 1/4 A's.

 

[Herey]

Nah, they've gone straight to AAAA

 

[Ivanovic]

Oops my bad. Mods please lock thread

 

[Deleted member 16876]

They already were.

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This.

Ever since Sly.

 

[Raigor]

The term AAA refers to money spend on a game, not the quality

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People are still unable to understand this point.

 

[Etrian Darkness]

now OP, if you were to ask if SP have ascended to the upper echelons of studios where ND and SSM reside, then I would say...

not quite

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I agree if this was what this dumb thread was supposed to be asking.

 

[Detective]

 

[Ricky_R]

Infamous best indie franchise yo.

 

[Mifec]

They always have been rofl.

I'm confused as to why this is even a discussion. The inFamous games were already AAA last gen.

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Tribalism.

 

[Redcrayon]

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