Bofferbrauer on 30 May 2015
| Mythmaker1 said: Because each Zelda is built, more or less, from scratch. New assets, new art-style, new controls, new engines, and so on. That takes a lot of time. Many sequels these days are built using similar engines or recycled assets in order to save costs and time. |
And even then, annualised sequels are done by different teams each year since these take roughly 3 years to make even with all the asset reuse.
4-5 years is actually the time any AAA game takes to be made nowadays; the more plot and the bigger the world and the more things you can do in that world the longer it takes.
