GTA 5 had one of these, as do many
AAA releases these days, so this isn't special or unexpected — which also makes it easy to believe.
Not exact matches
We're looking forward to seeing
AAA games developed with Ubuntu in mind as part of a multi-platform
day and date
release on Steam.»
Maybe these
AAA dev would take note not to
release broken, half finished, buggy crap games that need
day one patches to fix the problem that should have been iron out before
release.
But why has this effect seemingly snowballed, with
day - one sales of big - budget, so - called
AAA game
releases skyrocketing over the past decade?
I'm talking about
AAA retail
releases that are sold
day one at stores like Target, Gamestop, Amazon, and Walmart.
While it's more than likely that many problems will be resolved in the
day 1 patch, it's disappointing to see this many basic issues in a
AAA title with content that's been
released to the paying public.
In the long run, staving off the impulse to pre-order or buy
AAA releases on
day one without the express intent of playing them immediately will keep games out of your backlog and money in your wallet.
Contrast this with the new
AAA games with all the fancy graphics, gargantuan worlds, and flashy cinematics, which all feel so repetitive, rote, and shallow — think of the last time you were really excited about a current -
day AAA release as opposed to waiting for the sequel to Final Fantasy III was — as it is, it's a bad example, since it fell short of III in so many ways, but you still looked forward to it.
When the good game loses because the majority would vote for a [DELETED]
AAA wannabe over any amazing indie, it'd get put up with a discount at least and some of these will be on
release day so it's still a good deal.
Thanks in large part to the pent - up demand for bona fide
AAA experiences at the time, inFAMOUS: Second Son stormed to one million sales within nine
days on the market back in 2014, a strong momentum Sucker Punch continued with the
release of First Light some months later.
September is jam - packed with games as the holiday rush starts rolling, and we've put together a list of all the
AAA releases, indie treats, and DLC making a play for your virtual wallet over the next 30
days.
It was fully featured and content complete upon
release, much unlike most other
AAA games these
days - and Nintendo since has continued to add to it, such as with the
release of the free Luigi's Balloon Challenge mode to the game in a recent update, which adds a competitive online multiplayer mode to the game.
A recently
released study from
AAA concluded that even though more than 95 percent of drivers see drowsy driving as completely unacceptable, more than a third admitted to doing it themselves at least once in the last 30
days.