Not only will they not go away, but we should want them to continue. They are healthy for the industry for a couple reasons:
1) People want them. We are nostalgic for the past. People love games from their childhood and the idea of them being recreated to look and function better, on modern devices, and in convenient forms (Switch, VR, for examples).
2) It allows companies to make more money off older games. These remakes/remasters don't cost as much to develop as original games. The stories are made, so they don't have to hire a bunch of screenwriters. The art and visual design is established, they just need to upgrade them essentially. The games are already known, so marketing will be easier and cheaper. All this points to cheaper development, which means more profit from selling them. And what does more profit mean for gaming companies? More people get jobs, more people get raises, stockholders make more dividends, capitalism flourishes and, most relevant to us with the addition of studios and more members to development teams, more new games are able to be made in a quicker fashion. If they just focused on selling a game once and moving on to super expensive brand new games and engines that they have to start over on every time and marketing from square one every time, they will not generate nearly as much revenue and profit as they do now, which means fewer studios, smaller development teams, and less overall newer games being made.
We need remakes in order to have more new games.
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