Quoted from nicoy3k:The BOM argument is absurd, do you realize how much money they save not having to develop a new game?
Agreed, people discount how much overhead cost Stern has to account for these days from animators, coders, engineers, and designers. A product that is closer to ready made is much easier to deal with and actually costs stern less to produce. That of course discounts the efforts of the coders to port the software to a new system, but rumors would say that has been done slowly over time.