Who gave those titles?
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Nobody gives this classification, it’s an informal classification for games that are produced by large publishers with high development and marketing budgets.
It’s a marketing term. Nothing technically makes a game AAA or not. Its just meant to imply that a large studio made it with a large budget, and so by default its good and you should buy it.
Back in the old days, “AA” meant “anti-aliasing”, and was a feature that only “top games” could do. I guess some marketing team decided to use “AA” as a indicator of quality, then someone other marketing department decided to up the game and use “AAA”, then “AAAA”.
I believe this came back from the day and actually reference to the project management triangle for Cost, Scope, Time. AAA would mean for me a game, which was high in Production Cost, High in Development Time and High in Quality, which is not something that is realistic, but outstanding. That’s why AAA was such a great claim to have, because is defies logic. But I think nowadays it goes hand in hand with budget alone. So every game costing a shit ton of money is claimed to be AAA or even AAAA (thanks Ubisoft for that joke xD). But for me personally it’s about cost, time and quality together.
Large budget, caring to shareholders more than players, making game that would certainly sells, reusing the same things what worked previously instead of doing something new.
TL;DR: bland game relying on cinematics budget and “involvement” mechanics instead.
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