Idiot question incoming!
What's "Triple I"?
Triple-A equivalent of Indie games. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a prime example.
The expensive indie games that are too costly to go physical.
Why is Hellblade considered an indie game? It had the cover of a Game informer even. Not really something Id consider indie.
It wasn't funded by a major publisher. It was an independently developed and published game by a studio that has never independently published a game before.
From Wikipedia "Independent video game development is the video game development process of creating indie games; these are video games, commonly created by individual or small teams of video game developers and usually without significant financial support of a video game publisher or other outside source. These games may take years to be built from the ground up or can be completed in a matter of days or even hours depending on complexity, participants, and design goal."
20 devs. Small team.
No financial support from publishers.
The difference here between Triple-A and Triple-I, I guess, would be the fact that Private Division never seeks control or ownership of intellectual properties.