AlfredoTurkey said:
I would agree if not for the fact that GTA 5, TLOU etc. did so well. Clearly, for whatever reason, people aren't capable of NOT buying the same thing twice.
I'm one of those people that, unless you're emotionally or physically harming someone else, thinks that you should be able to do whatever it is that you enjoy. But for ME? I don't enjoy ports. I don't like them. I don't support them. I like new games and I would rather these studios focus on things like BOTW and Mario Odyssey and stop wasting resources on games I already played into the ground. |
Usually ports are not done by the main teams. They are outsourced and cost a fraction of the time/money a new game does.
Thus when a port does well, such as those you listed and Mario Kart in this example, its good for you. Nintendo now has a shit ton of free money basically to use for their big IP's like BotW and Odyssey.
So as for their RESOURCES. The main developers are working NEW games, and are also getting bigger budgets due to the success of the ports.
Look at Wind Waker HD, or Twilight Princess HD.
Neither one took really any resources from BotW. It had second tier developers doing it. Maybe Aounuma stopped by once in a blue moon, but otherwise he was doing the new main zelda the whole time. And you can bet the success of the two HD remakes helped BotW get a bigger budget
