This made me lawl so hard. You do realize this is the guy that cancelled Scalebound (the X1's only prominent exclusive RPG) and has delayed Crackdown 3 three times. He was also the one who canned couch co-op in Halo 5. Yes, his vision and delivery is SO GREAT....

I think they'll release it on PS4 first to sell the first 7+ million and then later on PS5 to sell another 10+ million, aka Mario Kart 8 style

Ya that's quite possible. But I just can't see it releasing this year. We'll see though.

So you never heard of "Game of the year edition" , or other re-release of games on the same platform with additional content or slight improvements?

It's already a usual thing, no-one is angry about it. 

Come on, it's not his fault! He just asked them to change their game completely to focus on multi-player even though it wasn't a good match, and canceled the game because they couldn't do it properly.

Not his fault, it's obviously because of Don Mattrick anyway.

(Just anticipating the usual answers, Don Mattrick being the biggest scapegoat in the history of video games... )

So it will be a problem for Sony but it isn't/ won't be a problem for MS? The X1 already supports enhancements of XB and 360 games while also supporting the supply of remasters that get released. Some of these games, from what I understand, do overlap. So it works there, it will work on PS5.

If anything this will only enhance what remasters should offer: not just basic updates that the console itself can provide. One such example would be the inclusion of VR into games, which is something BC is never going to accomplish by itself. So the nature of remasters will change.

Let us not forget that TloU, while a critical darling on PS3 was also released just prior to the PS4 launch. At this point the PS3 was hardly even relevant as a console. The immediate success of the PS4, especially in terms of creating a desire from consumers, resulted in many non-PS3 owners buying a PS4. Shuhei himself even stated that data they collected showed new users into the PS ecosystem. You make it sound as if all PS3 owners of the game rebought it on PS4 when really the game was catering to a new and expanded audience.

Still, I am waiting to know which other remasters made Sony so much money that sticking to remasters is clearly the better thing for Sony? They barely even pump out remasters this gen, and have come to a halt on their PS2 classics remasters, and Patapon 2 is MIA right now. Clearly Sony don't care as much about the remaster game as you make them out to do so. it is not really big business and only few select titles are really seeing major gains from being remastered. 

So, if MS has no problem running a BC programme that also allows games to be enhanced, while also not denying remasters being release on their current platform, then why would this be a problem for Sony? Nothing even remotely suggests that there would be any mass worry over this.