Times It Worked?

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I knew I forgot a few in my first post but Platinum Games was founded by a bunch of ex Capcom guys and they've generally done alright so far.

There are really quite a lot of examples but I think the difference is that a number of these newer examples are also using crowd funding to make games catering to nostalgia. Just the act of crowd funding a game changes the way people perceive and are introduced to a game, see it change from initial hype to a complex development and eventual release as something unlike the initial impression and it was likely delayed too. A lot of information is known about the developers and a bunch of high expectations set, e.g. "remember these guys made Mega Man or Banjo, but this new game doesn't stand up to their old work!"

The older studios that broke away wouldn't be publicly known about until they released something and even then many people wouldn't know that these same developers made Okami or Chrono Trigger, they'd see their games as just new games with no previous track record to match.