“You’re not seeing it because you don’t work for said corporations.”

No, I’m not seeing it because it’s not happening.

“you are in fact taking devs away from one project to work on another.”

And yet you tell me I’m the one in the dark. Devs like Blue Point pretty much ONLY work on remasters and ports. It’s rare that the original developer, or one that has its own games, is pulled from some project they’re working on to create a remaster.

“Publisher still makes money”

Er, not really. Since most folks would be buying used copies, the publisher would be making NO money. And that wouldn’t make them happy, now, would it?

” Wouldn’t it be more cost efficient”

Possibly, but it wouldn’t necessarily entice anyone to get the new hardware. And they want that.

“The remaster came out a year after the original.”

Yeah, and it came out VERY late in the life of the PS3. Lots of Xbox and Wii owners never played it because they didn’t have a PS3, and quite a few PS3 owners who WOULD have played it had sold their system for a PS4. Obviously not an “everybody” thing on that last part, but the first group of people is pretty damn large.

“I don’t need remasters and don’t even want to hear about them.”

Then don’t go into articles about them. Seems like a very simple solution.

“When 360 and PS3 came out there were hardly any remastered games.”

AT launch, perhaps. There were also a lot less games on the new hardware, and people held onto their old ones- PS2s, anyway- as there were still many games being made for the previous generation. There were, however, 90+ remasters last generation. As of July 1, this generation stands at about 50.

” Every experience was new.”

Untrue. There were plenty of cross-generation titles and sequels that were incremental upgrades of their predecessors.

“This is how I want this gen to be but it’s too late.”

Barring the fact that, well, you’re wrong about it in the first place, it ISN’T too late for anything… most things. If you haven’t found new experiences, you haven’t been looking.

You’re not seeing it because you don’t work for said corporations. If you have to direct resources to code remasters you are in fact taking devs away from one project to work on another. Backwards compatibility is better because you can just go buy the old game and play it. Publisher still makes money, gamer is still happy. Wouldn’t it be more cost efficient to just print more copies of the older games? I’m not 100% against remasters, but if I didn’t have an Xbox 360 last gen and bought an Xbox One this gen, I’d have all the Gears Of War games. Yeah, Microsoft does awesome remasters and did a great job on Gears 1. But the best part of it was getting all the other games for free. The Uncharted collection was a worthy remaster too. But Last Of Us? The remaster came out a year after the original. Oo Tomb Raider did that shit too. But whatever man. I own all da consoles so I don’t need remasters and don’t even want to hear about them. When 360 and PS3 came out there were hardly any remastered games. Every experience was new. This is how I want this gen to be but it’s too late.

Anymore? WHEN? When was it that we got more remasters than new games? And I’m expecting half a year or more where there were more remasters released than new games.

Not any more we aren’t, no.

“On the bright side, the initial burst of only remasters and no new games is over, so I think it is now a good time to revisit them and see why they can be a good thing for both the developers and their customers.”

“when the industry is focusing on creating remasters at the expense of new experiences.”

Weird, I’m not seeing that at all.

“if you already owned it before.”

IF.

“lets you bring over your old games”

“if you already owned it before.”

There is nothing wrong with playing old games. The problem is when the industry is focusing on creating remasters at the expense of new experiences.

Backwards compatibility is a great system because it allows us to continue playing our old games, and developers don’t need to focus on a remaster as we are already able to play them. That’s not to say there is no value in remasters, there needs to be a balance.

I understand that. You missed my point. My point is why are we praising playing old games but at the same time say we are tired of last gen games and want new experiences? Furthermore, if you already own last gen games then you already own a last gen system to play it on.

Remasters want you to pay for a game twice, if you already owned it before. Backwards compatibility lets you bring over your old games so you won’t have to pay for them again.