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Xxain 4 hours ago
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BasilZero said:
Xxain said:

That's just stupid. For somebody gaming as long as you say you have I can't believe the problem with this industry is not glaring to you.

Example:

In the past SEGA had about 8 teams. Each of those teams had at least 4 IP's the rotated between. Between those 8 teams SEGA had a lot of games in a lot of different genres. Let looks at DreamCast era. They had:

Sonic

Phantasy Star

Jet Set Radio

Shenmue

Crazy Taxi

Space Channel 7

ChuCHu Rocket

Samba De Amigo

Now SEGA is just Sonic, Yakuza, Persona/ Shin Megami. Sonic Team used to be responsible for Sonic/Phantasy Star/ Samba de Amigo/Puyo pop. This happening across the entire industry. Big companies with treasure troves of IP's being reduced to 2 or 3 games. CAPCOM: Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter. BANDAI NAMCO: Souls, Tekken, anime fighters. Outside of those Remasters!!

My friend. The amount of Remasters coming out should shine a light on the problem it self!

EDIT: I don't care if its reviving old IP's or making new ones; we need more variety. I love Yakuza but who asked for Pirate Yakuza? We just had 8, Gaiden, the Samurai one, in a very short amount of time. How about throw in something new. 

Nobody cares about Phantasy Star, Jet Set Radio, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, Space Channel 7, ChuChuRocket or Samba De Amigo.

They are called dead IPs for a reason. Same with F-Zero, Earthbound, Banjo Kazooie, Breath of Fire, Viewtiful Joe,  Jak and Daxter, etc

That pirate Yakuza game will likely sell more than all the above mentioned games which is why these companies continue making more games from the same series.

Sonic, Yakuza, SMT/Persona keeps getting more games because these are the games people care about. Which is why SEGA/Atlus is making spinoffs of said games, Metaphor is basically a spinoff of SMT series (i.e. Soul Hackers 2 is sequel to Soul Hackers 1 which was a spinoff of SMT).

There's enough games old re-releasing and new coming out to satisfy everyone.

You dont like what games are coming out?

Quit gaming then. Get a new hobby.

Edit: Or maybe play games from more than 1 region or company.

You are missing the point here greatly.

We had Publishers rotating across a dozen IP across many different genres to now being reduced to just 3. Whether you care about those IP does not matter in this context. Publishers catalogs were had more variety. Yes, a lot of those are inactive because of business choices, but at least at that time Publishers were willing to explore new creative ideas even if the failed. That's how you find new IP's! Yakuza Pirates selling more than those IP's doesn't matter; We are being asked this question as CONSUMERS not from a business aspect (My answer would be totally different if that was the case). This isn't region based problem. It's all over industry.