[dmix]

Agreed, I've been playing Dave The Diver which on the surface is a gloried flash/mobile game but it has so much personality and depth it draws you in.

I try AAA games on Xbox Game Pass once in a while and I really don't get why they pump this stuff out without recruiting some talent to design it. It's almost worse than big budget Hollywood sometimes.

[tpxl]

FWIW, Dave The Diver has been published by Nexon which is AAA.

[hrnnnnnn]

Triple-A is a designation usually given to a game, rather than a publisher, as it reflects the amount of resources and polish a specific project received.

[tpxl]

Triple-A is a designation given to games published by big studios.

[015a]

Triple-A is a designation given to games which receive some undefined large amount of funding toward its development. That tends to correlate with being developed or published by a large studio, which Dave the Diver definitely was, but MINTROCKET wasn't given nearly the same resources as, say, a typical Xbox Games Studio studio would be.

[philipov]

Triple-A is a designation given to games developed by big studios. Just because it's published by EA or Microsoft doesn't make a game AAA.

[jsnell]

Not even that. What matters is the budget and the team size, not the size of the studio. Rockstar Table-Tennis was not a AAA game despite coming from the AAA developer.

[philipov]

I meant it as a necessary but not sufficient criterion.