Why Remasters/HD versions are awesome.

[VanceIX]

Conina said:

VanceIX said:

It's not necessarily the problem here, the problem is that Sony is spending a lot of money advertising an older game that they quickly remastered because they were ill prepared for the summer release period. If TLOU was just a side game with a release schedule of multiple new games, it would be fine. As it is, they are using a year-old title as their flagship title for the summer, which is a slap in the face for people who bought a PS4 for original content. Sure, 50% of people never owned a PS3, but what about the other 50% that already had one and want new games? That's the problem here.

And the problem with the first 3DS year was that Nintendo was spending a lot of money advertising an old game that they quickly remastered because they were ill prepared for the spring & summer & autumn release periods. If Ocarina of Time 3D was just a side game with a release schedule of multiple new games, it would have been fine. As it was, they were using an old title as their flagship title for the summer, which was a slap in the face for people who bought a 3DS for original content. Sure, most Nintendo fans were totally happy with that remastered classic, but what about the others that already had played the original a hundred times and wanted new games for their new handheld? ;)

Ignoring your blatant sarcasm, I agree. The first year for the 3DS was rocky due to very few original games being released. Of course, at least most of the remakes were over a decade old from the N64 era, meaning that the vast majority of adopters did not have access to those games. 

In this case, around half, if not more, people already had access to TLOU. If they didn't play it then, there may be little reason for a lot of them to play it now.