Soulbazer - why no remakes?

[ClaudeLv250]

lestatdark said:
@ClaudeLv250

You have valid points, but I have to counter just one thing that you pointed out. I don't think that it comes down to the fact that Enix doesn't have the availability that Square has in contacting the original developers, and i'm going to give you the example of the Lufia saga.

Lufia, to me is one of the best RPG sagas, and Lufia 2 is the best RPG ever made, to me, and, like soul blazer, E.V.O, actraiser, ogre battle, and many more, is one of the trully lacking RPG's that need a re-release or remake, be it to the wii store, or any other format available. Now, why isn't it out then? Nintendo is the original publisher of the games, so a wii re-release isn't out of the question, Natsume, which owned Neverland, the actual developers of the game, is still around, making endless variations of the Harvest Moon saga, and most of the developers from Neverland actually moved to Natsume. So why is it that a Lufia re-release hasn't come or isn't even being planned?
It's because it wouldn't be profitable for Nintendo and for Natsume as well. Lufia never was a real popular saga, even at that time, just like the case with Soul Blazer/Illusion of Time/Terranigma, it was more of a niche, really difficult Turn Based RPG with even tougher puzzles, so that wouldn't cater to a really large group of nowadays gamers. So you see, it's not about playing the blame game, because I believe that every company is based on "money-caring" type of business, even if it doesn't show to the outside, it's all about what would be profitable in the current gaming scenario and what it wouldn't be profitable.

Nintendo didn't publish Lufia, Natsume did, and Taito owns the franchise. Square Enix owns Taito now, which means that Square Enix actually owns the Lufia/Estpolis IP, but what happens to it us up to Taito because SE lets them keep free reign of their franchises. And Taito did try to revive the series with Ruins of Lore, they actually developed it themselves instead of giving it to Neverland. I'm guessing it didn't get a well enough response for them to bother trying to bring back the other games.