AA Games Will "Go Extinct," Strange Scaffold's Lead Says

Xalavier Nelson Jr., Studio Head of Strange Scaffold, known for titles such as An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs, El Paso, Elsewhere, has recently said that middle-sized games will probably disappear from the industry.

As spotted by Games Radar, in the recent podcast at Limit Break Network, the developer supposed that AA games would step into the place of the AAA titles because that was what indie had done for AA games. "You have indie teams making big licensed games," noted Nelson. "I believe that games will continue to have the big outliers like Balatro or AAA games that pop off to an incredible degree, like Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy."

According to the developer, the AA games revolution will not happen because those developers who could fund it would rather take an opportunity to release such hit titles as Suicide Squad. "Everyone who has the money to do an AA revolution instead wants to make a new Fortnite, and that new Fortnite may get canceled before it ever gets released."  

To sum up, the developer thinks that the industry will have "amazing outliers," "the highest highs," and "small entities outperforming," while "those Final Fantasy: Strangers of Paradise-sized games are the ones most likely to go extinct."

Balatro, an indie game created by a solo developer, indeed turned out to be a hit and had 2 million copies sold about half a year after its release. Today, its much-anticipated mobile version was announced to launch this month.

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