Why don’t ‘AAA’ publishers put out more ‘B budget’ games?
B for big business Way back in the year 2008,my first ever front-page post for Destructoidasked if ultra-expensive, realistic-looking AAA games were where the industry was going. Flash forward nearly 16 years later, and most of the enduring, popular new intellectual properties since then haven’t come AAA at all, and instead hail from what you might call “B budget” developers.Human Fall Flat, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Genshin Impact, Among Us, Fall Guys, Fortnite, Vampire Survivors,andRocket Leagueare just a few of the non-AAA games that went on to find big, sustained audiences since then....