Remastering the Remastered - Pricing Issues

[KBG29]

There are many different reasons people buy remasters, so using one line of thinking does not make sense.

Some people buy a remaster because they never played the game, and never had the device it was on. In this case it is a brand new game, so paying brand new prices is not an issue.

Some people are buying remasters because they loved the game the last time they played it, and are willing to pay full price to experience it agian in better quality.Again, in this scenario, full price is worth it to this person.

Some people are buying remasters because their old system broke and they don't want to replace it, but they still like the game enough to repurchse it. In this case, this person may not want to pay full price.

Some people are buying just because they like to have a library of games. These people fall into a catagory, where maybe they pay full price, or maybe they wait for a sale.

Then their are some people that think full price for any game day one is overboard. These people will wait till a game is half off, and will most likly expect a remasted game to be less than a brand new game.

At any rate, remasters do not just appear out of thin air. Some team of devs has work to get the game running on the new device, they have to optimize for the device, in some cases they redo the assets of the game, add new features, and much more. Somebody has to pay these people, otherwise their would be no remaster at all.

The movie buisness has been doing this for ages. I have had Terminator 2 of VHS, DVD, a DVD Special Edition, Blu-ray, and am ready to pay full price again if it is ever available on PlayStation Video. That is the way it goes. Sometimes a company does remasters on the cheap, most of the time they don't.

If someone does not agree with a full price purchase of a remaster, then by all means they should wait for the price to drop. There is no harm in this appraoch, then the dev makes full price off the people that are willing to play, and the gamer that gets it at a discounted price gets to enjoy the game once it reaches a price point they are willing to pay.

I personally have no problem with remasters, and paying day one prices. I have bought Tomb Raider, The Last of Us, God of War 3, and The Uncharted Collection so far this gen off the top of my head. Over the years I have bought countless re-releases across, Xbox 360, PS3, PS Vita, Wii, and many other consoles.