Porting a game to HD is MUCH less expensive than authoring a new one. The only development resource required is engineering, with maybe some artists thrown in, if a high-quality HD upgrade is desired.

This small team of folks are also able to usually crank out these ports, in less than 1/3 to 1/4th the time of a "real" HD game, yet the titles probably garner 1/3rd to 1/2 the income that a "real" HD game would. 1/3rd the income for what is probably 1/8th to 1/10th the cost (smaller team * less time) -- pretty good deal for the publishers. On top of all that, the dev houses that make HD remakes usually have NO rights whatsoever to the IP, and are basically doing the job for a one-time dev contract (just to keep their studio busy in these tough times). All of the profit, hence, belongs to the publisher alone.

Cult classics are pretty much guaranteed to sell enough copies to make the publisher money. Making the books look good is pretty important, particularly in these bad economic days -- hence, HD remakes.

It's purely a profit deal. Luckily for us gamers the titles the dev's are remastering are the cream of the last gen crop.

As strange at it may sound, quite a few people missed out on the opportunity to play some of these titles because of the sheer amount of games that were released last generation.

It's important to realize that a great game only usually took 1-2 years to complete, were now it's usually 2-3 years.

And since most people now have HDTV's..why not give gamers old and new a second chance to play some of the gems they missed, or simply want to experience again.

I doubt any of us really mind as long as the price and content are there. New IP's are still very important though.

I'm hoping to see Dragon Quest 8 HD and Dark Cloud 2 HD cause that would make my year!!

Because it was better than this one.

This guy seems to think everyone has their old consoles and will set them back up and play them again. A lot of people don't have an old console. These HD remakes are great. There are extras with most of them like trophies. The games are cheaper too. Nobody says you have to buy them.

How come people complain about these HD remakes and re releases. They compllain about God of War Sly Metal Gear and Final Fantasy 10. But how come no one complains about the releases of CoD every year. It's pretty much the same thing as all these remakes. But no none of these articles ever brings up cod.

Because last gen was better

They do remakes or re-use IPs to get people familiar with them again/for the first time so they can make more games based on the franchise.

This is easy. Because game development companies don't want to risk creating a new IP that may fail. This would cost them a lot of money. And in an age where game companies are disappearing at the drop of a hat with risky business decisions I don't really blame them from a business standpoint. So in turn they look for an alternative and go to franchises that are, or were, popular. It is much easier to revitalize an already existing franchise than to create one completely from scratch.

As a gamer I would prefer new IP's. But also I don't mind if they use existing franchises as long as they improve upon them or do something completely new with them. I love the new Deus Ex game. I never even got a chance to play the old ones, so I am happy they made that prequel. But at the end of the day I just want to play good games. As long as they are good and provide good story telling that is deep I am a happy guy.

dude you got to get to the source the sion will b free