@why @moth_ball @ocean I really don't agree. A lot of games were published by Enix back in the days, which released Dragon Quest. Were all AAA? Hell no. I don't think the publisher dictates this

You can see the AAA rot in Square to the level where they're being beaten by fucking Pikmin 4

The thing about AA, mid-tier and smaller devs is that once upon a time they were able to release high quality innovative games that were more or less on par with the biggest studios. This fell off during the HQ gen, more and more, but there's still a few studios that manages nowadays

I don't quite believe FromSoft is AAA