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How many AAA/AA should first parties make?

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Anthony Hopkins

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Out of sony and Xbox games studios how would allocate each studio?

I would do

Sony
ND - AAA
SSM - AAA
Guerrilla - AAA
Insomniac - AAA
Sucker punch - AAA
Japan studios - AA.5
MediaM - AA.5
Polyphony - AAA
Bend - AAA
London studio - AA.5
PIXELOPUS - AA
San Diego - AA.5

Total = 7 AAA, 2 AA, 6 AA.5
(counted Japan studio as 3 because they have 3 studios)

Xbox

Coalition - AAA
Playground team 1 - AAA
Playground team 2 - AAA
The initiative - AAA
343 - AAA
Ninja Theory - AAA
Obsidian - AAA
Compulsion - AA
Undead labs - AA.5
Turn 10 - AAA
Rare AA.5
Inexile - AA
Double fine - AA.5
Mojang - AA

Total = 8 AAA, 4 AA.5, 2 AA
 
Gaardus

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This many.
 
Modest_Modsoul

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The new unannounced San Diego studio should be working on AAA game, I think.

While the other San Diego still on The Show series.
 
Nightengale

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Fine, here's a serious answer.

There's no right answer.

Is THQNordic's plan to have 50-60 games in development any better/worse than Ubisoft/EA/Acitivision?

A lot of times, game development is structured around the limited notion that the playerbase of a traditional game is limited. Games are a medium where one person can play less than 5 games an entire console generation, and in that perspective, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to invest in >4 AAA games per year, because the audience isn't there for a $60 product more than once per quarter.

Of course there are exceptions to various degrees, and some products afford more loyalty than others.

But there are no solid rules to how many types of games a first-party should make. If there is, it's more on the competitive lense.
 

Cathcart

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Man I hope resetera can figure this one out or it's gonna be chaos at Sony & MS headquarters.
 
zoltek

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Alright, now this one is a little too much. I don't care how many A's a game has behind it. I just want good games and I've played great games with one A and great games with 3 A's.

If you are asking how much money, relatively speaking, MS and Sony should put behind their games, the flippant answer is the better they think a game will sell, the more money that game should receive.
 
Unknownlight

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There's no way I'm ever accepting an AA.5 label.

Actually, does anyone even use the Single-A label? All I ever see is AAA, AA, and indie.
 
Tyaren

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Oct 25, 2017
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Like in a year or in a generation or till the end of time?

I'd say exactly 6803 AAAs, 4320 AAs, and 3581 AA.5s. :)

What is a AA.5 anyway?
 
Fat4all

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how much money is in John H. Sony's wallet

that's how many AAA games they can make today
 
cw_sasuke

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Weird thread - just release good games, the budget allocated to them isn't the important part.
 
IIFloodyII

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Tyaren said:
Like in a year or in a generation or till the end of time?

I'd say exactly 6803 AAAs, 4320 AAs, and 3581 AA.5s. :)

What is a AA.5 anyway?
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An AA sized game + Indie sized game I guess? It's a bit silly really, like AAAA.
Most don't even know the difference between AA and AAA at this point either (including OP, given both Obsidian and Ninja Theory haven't made a AAA game in years at this point), so I guess it's all a bit silly at this point. Also with how secretive pubs are with their budgets.
 
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