What Does AAA or Triple-A Game Mean?

You guys gamers I’m sure you often hear the term games AAA (read: triple-A), but understand not anyway with the meaning behind the three letters. I myself initially thought AAA was an abbreviation, but it’s not! Let’s peel the ins and outs games AAA.

Understanding games AAA

Games AAA is a classification for a games with a very large production budget (usually above US$50-100 million), both in terms of production and distribution scale. Usually games labeled AAA manufactured or distributed by game publishers famous, you name it games publisher who is quite familiar, Rockstar Games with series Grand Theft Auto or Naughty Dog with a draw The Last of Us.

Factors that make a games labeled games AAA

Like a hollywood movie with a label blockbustersthen industry games has an AAA label. So what factors make a games labeled AAA as appropriate blockbusters?

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There really isn’t an official standard, but there usually is games AAA has a budget with a minimum budget of approximately $50,000,000 or approximately IDR 725,000,000,000. What a fantastic number! Yepthis is one of the reasons why you should buy games original to appreciate the hard work of the many people who are fighting behind the scenes.

Nowa budget that big is a financial picture of how games AAA will be produced and distributed.

Why is the budget so big?

Games AAA is usually produced with engine And tools the latest graphic technology to fulfill all the desired aspects, such as visual and audio aspects, which are certainly not cheap. All of this is done to support the game design that has been agreed upon by the party in charge (lead director) from the beginning.

The main goal is to produce an enjoyable gaming experience. But of course there are many other aspects to be achieved through this technology, such as producing realistic visualizations.

For distribution games AAA usually uses a wide variety channels promotion to reach global market, for example Sony when promoting Days Gone them in Japan by advertising on television and localizing content games and the advertisement is in Japanese.

Apart from the factors of production and distribution, don’t forget that there are still human resources. Usually games AAA is made by hundreds of people involving various divisions within the company. This also does not rule out the involvement of hundreds or thousands of people outside the company (outsourced) remember channels such a wide promotion.

Conclusion

Even though the budget issued is very large, not all games AAA is guaranteed success, you name it recently Fallout 76 or Anthem which received a lot of negative criticism. But regardless of success or failure games, games with the AAA label will attract the attention of many people to buy or at least aware with preference games (thanks to its massive promotion).