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The true answer to this thread is public opinion:

- Remake after remake receive massive support
- Paid online is widely accepted and highly profitable
- DLC is accepted as a central and essential part of new releases. Even to the point where it can be pre-ordered and subscription-based
- The consumers gladly accept it as their duty to serve as testing departments, priding themselves as early adopters and "true fans of the series"
- Repetitive franchises which do more or less the same thing over and over again, except bigger and more complex each time, receive widespread support from the masses whom at the same time complain that too few new IP's are made


Yet people wonder where the innovation went and why developers seem so reluctant to be consumer friendly - completely oblivious to the fact that they themselves are the main contributors to this problem and, by extension, the very demise of dedicated video game hardware. And when all hope is finally lost, it is far too late for them to get on their knees and beg for Nintendo to reverse this process.