How Many First Party Remasters Has Sony Actually Done?

[JWeinCom]

pokoko said:

JWeinCom said:

Uhhhhh... who said anything about a first party team being removed from a new project? I'm not going to have to back up a point I didn't make.  I never said anything about first party, nor did I say anything about being removed from a team.

Simple fact is, that whoever is working on the game, first, second, third party, tea party, or whatever it may be, could have been working on a new project instead.  And if there was no demand for remasters, companies would need other sources of revenue, which I imagine would lead them to hiring Blue Point to do something else.

Whether or not Sony would do that is a question I can't answer, but the fact that they could do so is undeniable. 

 

 

Then that's even more of an assumption and one that ignores that contracted studios are doing what THEY want to do, perhaps because they like the work, or because they like the pay, or maybe because it's a good way of funding another endeavor.

I don't think you can back up that this is what they want to do.  I would hope that developers got into the business to work on original games.  And again, if this is funding original endeavors, I'll stop complaining when those endeavors come to fruition. 

 Perhaps they'd even join the long list of developers seeking a job if it were not for this opportunity.  I'm sure Sony could find someone else if they declined.  Specialists exist in pretty much every industry dealing with technology.  

Like I said, this is not just a Sony thing.  If there was no market for the remasters, they'd stop making them.  If consumers were buying mid budget original IPs, we'd likely see them make those. 

You can add up all the "could have been" scenarios you want but it still ends up as a house of cards.

You've had just as many hypotheticals as I have.  There are two perhapses in this post alone.  I can't predict the future, or any alternate pasts, but I feel the possibilities I've presented are based on pretty reasonable suppositions.  I can't predict the future, but I can say with certainty that teams working on remasters could be used on original titles.