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Pokemon, at least up to gen 6 anyway. Completing the Pokedex in each gen opened my eyes to the fact that gamefreak had built in a ton of little mini games in the form of Pokemon. Catching feebas for example is a whole fucking thing in Gen 3. A game within a game
To add to @[email protected]’s comment, the most difficult and costly aspect of video games are the games themselves, which means that there’s also an inverse relationship with companies having interest in making them. Perhaps to investors, hardware has appeared like a sure investment, because they’ve always ignored how important the games are to the hardware.