I feel like a time factor is more likely. But still, they develop half the game before they announce that their even working on it so that they can get a time idea. So I image that it is actually more a factor of that is the style they like to do their games in. That or a computer requirements one. I can't imagine a computer trying to render all that in a super high quality.

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