| Landguy said:
The thing is, BC isn't a one time thing and all the games are available and we stop talking about it. It will be a continous thing that people will talk about for the next couple of years as publishers look to mine extra $ out of their old titles and want to put the games in the Xbox store. Why do a remaster when you can get more money for close to nothing? I don't think that this will change the sales rankings, as the PS4 has clearly decided that. But, we may yet see the sales gap stop increasing so much. |
The BC you are talking about is different to companies making it so a game works on Xbox One and selling it on the store. BC allows a customer to play the games they already own (hard copies), if a customer was sensible that also means they won't buy the $40 version from the store but the $5 version from the 2nd hand shelf if they don't already own it.
Why do a remaster? Because that is far more profitable than allowing a customer to just play the game already. It's a great feature for consumers but not very profitable for the publishers.
Hmm, pie.
