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> Generally gameplay and character based games > instead of visual appeal / physics based games > like many of the traditional major AAA games. > This dramatically lowered their production costs. Are we sure this is true? Refined gameplay is the result of many, many, many extra person-hours (and therefore money) of iteration, testing, refinement, and so forth. It's one of the reasons (certainly not the only reason) there's (for example) a flagship Zelda game every 5+ years, not every single year like Madden 2013 or Call Of Medal Of Honorable Black Splinter Ops.