'Resident Evil Village' for Mac arrives on October 28

Is this considered a Triple-A game?

How convenient that it can't be benchmarked against any Mac that supports an external or third-party GPU.

22july2013 said:

Is this considered a Triple-A game?

Yes

22july2013 said:

Is this considered a Triple-A game?

Yes, Capcom is a big studio with nearly 3000 employees and $0.5-1b in yearly revenue. A game being AAA can normally be determined from the credits list (3:10):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lqWYqM004k&t=193s

Indie/AA studios usually have under 100 people, AAA has multiple hundreds if not thousands of people. The headcount determines the scale of the project as well as the budget. If 1000 people are allocated to one project full-time for 3 years, that's something like $40k x 3 x 1000 = $120m plus maybe $50-100m on marketing.

Indie/AA budgets are closer to 50 people x $40k x 1-2 years = $4m.

Hreb said:

How convenient that it can't be benchmarked against any Mac that supports an external or third-party GPU.

There are other games that can be compared and there's no going back to Intel so it's not a choice that people have to make. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the best one for comparison on Mac and the M1 Max is around the same as the 5700XT in the 27" iMac, which is roughly the same as an Nvidia 3060, these are all around 10TFLOPs. M1 Ultra is 1.5-2x this.

M2 is 40% faster than M1 so Pro versions likely have a similar improvement, which would put M2 Max closer to a 3070 and M2 Ultra closer to a 3090.

22july2013 said:

Is this considered a Triple-A game?

It’s considered OLD. 

So it WAS considered a AAA game. 

But now? It’s just over a year old, which is forever in the video game industry. 

This is always the conundrum. 

Mac game devs port a game over after it has saturated the market on consoles and pc. Most Mac customers who care about games also have a PlayStation, Xbox, etc. and will have already bought and played the game on competing platforms. This causes the Mac game sales to be low and developers end up feeling that the Mac isn’t a viable gaming business for them. But the REAL reason is that they waited forever to decide to port the game and brought it to market when it’s been played out. 

Would love for Capcom, etc to publish on Mac at the same time or immediately after it is available on other platforms. That would allow game development to be a viable business (as customers will not need to and would really increase demand from Mac gamers who would purchase the Mac version over console, etc.