What are the requirements of an AAA title? Average rating of 9 or higher? I'm assuming that only games that have actually been released can count. If its not out yet we can agree that it only "seems" like a AAA title. You could look that up easily.
Using http://www.metacritic.com/ (which makes an average of reviews from multiple sources),
360
1BioShock2007 96
2Orange Box, The2007 96
3Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare2007 95
4Gears of War2006 94
5Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The2006 94
6Rock Band2007 94
7Halo 32007 94
8Mass Effect2007 92
9Guitar Hero II2007 92
10Virtua Fighter 52007 90
11Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter2006 90
12Forza Motorsport 22007 90
http://www.metacritic.com/games/xbox360/scores/
Does Bio-Shock count as a shooter? Anyways, I see 2 music games, a racing game,two RPGS and a fighting GAME
PS3
1Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare2007 95
2Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The2007 93
3Rock Band2007 92
http://www.metacritic.com/games/ps3/scores/
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According to http://www.gamestats.com/, who also uses a press average but they also let user scores count so I feel its less accurate but... [edit: the post totally destroyed the chart, but the first number *9.x is the score. The second is just popularity so ignore it]
360
1 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare X360 Shooter Activision Infinity Ward 9.4 99.3 2 The Orange Box X360 Shooter Electronic Arts Valve 9.4 92.6 3 Guitar Hero II X360 Music RedOctane Harmonix 9.3 48.1 4 BioShock X360 Action RPG 2K Games Irrational Games 9.3 70.5 5 Gears of War X360 Shooter Microsoft Epic Games 9.2 73.6 6 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion X360 RPG Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Game Studios 9.2 58.3 7 Mass Effect X360 RPG Microsoft BioWare 9.1 99.8 8 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter X360 Shooter Ubisoft Ubisoft Paris (France) 9.1 42.8 9 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas X360 Shooter Ubisoft Ubisoft Montreal 9.0 64.2 10 Call of Duty 2 X360 Shooter Activision Infinity Ward 9.0 38.7 11 NHL 08 X360 Sports Electronic Arts EA Canada 9.0 62.4
http://www.gamestats.com/index/gs/xbox-360.html
You've got a sports game, 2 rpgs,a music game and Bio-Shock.
PS3
1 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PS3 Shooter Activision Infinity Ward 9.4 97.0 2 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PS3 RPG Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Game Studios 9.1 54.4 3 Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction PS3 Action Sony Computer Entertainment Insomniac Games 9.1 95.5
http://www.gamestats.com/index/gs/playstation-3.html
You have an RPG. But if we say that Bio-Shock isn't a shooter than I won't countR&C as a shooter.
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Those are all of the AAA titles according to those sources. You can pick apart the list for exclusives and other stuff. Its a shame that on some of these list, the PS3 versions didn't make the cut (although some did so I don't think they just didn't count multi-plat games or only listed them for one system).
This is why your teachers make such a big deal about citing sources. Anybody can just shout off opinion and rhetoric, but facts stand above all else. You can't deny the evidence. If someone doubts it, they can check your source. I wish everyone who posted was willing to make a logical argument or at least provide some sort of factual basis (with sources) for their claims.
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