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yvanjean said:

My bad I should have said Remastered/Remake games are a quick cash grab and Sony cash cow.

You are not making a new game from the grounds up and spending hours on level design, Story, Mechanics, Etc.

You are spending about 15-30% of the original budget to Remaster/Remake and slap on a $69.99 price tag on it. 

More power to Sony if people are stupid enough to drop $69.99 on a remake more power to them, smart business. I can benefit after they are done playing with it and pick it up in the bargain bins or they drop the digital price a few months down the road.

yea, I highly doubt that

the big manhours (= big money) of AAA development go into art, asset and animation creation and those are all new for the remake

another big part of the budget is creating the tech (if inhouse tech is used), because the people doing that are much better paid on average than the art team

and then there is marketing costs, which can be absurdly high for AAA games (even much higher than the dev costs itself)