sony isnt going to hold their lead if this is what theyre relying on. they better be careful, cuz honestly, theyre not outselling the competition by THAT much.

From that reaction, I'd guess not, then. So that means you either A. don't like GOTY versions at all or B. you'd like them to come out much later than the original release. Well, non-annual franchises (sports, COD, etc) are still on 2-3 year dev cycles. So would you prefer the GOTY version to come out...when the sequel comes out, and eat into its sales? Seems foolish. And "Game of the Year" denotes, well...Game of the Year. You can't have a "Game of the Year" edition in 2016 when you came out in 2013. Some game in 2015 was GOTY.

That's a convenient argument, so two years is the perfect timing for "remasters"?

What about games like Forza Horizon 2 that are developped for both the 360 and the xb1 at the same time, does that get a pass because it's naturally cross gen?

I honestly think the only difference is that some people want one and others want the other... while the rest would get both if they could... like any game, just ignore it if you don't like it, there is nothing foundational in a specific title, like platform policies or performance, it should not warrant that much debate, porting games to new system is a good way to add to the library and it let people who liked the old versions play them in improved form! ... and for the 50% of PS4 owners who never had a PS3, well this is their first chance to play it!

I wonder how many XB1 owners never had a 360? Then, if I had one and was a Halo fan, I would be pretty happy to finally be able to play these games with proper resolution/frame rate (Halo was originally a computer game, xbox only had a port of it in the first place).

No game of the year edition, that's just a name. If a game is to be rereleased, it shouldn't be as a quick cash in.

Why are people so hung up on this? "Remaster" is nothing more than a marketing term to help sell. This is basically just a one year late cross gen port. This is nothing new. The term remaster is just used to inform ps4 owners that there will be some slight improvements but otherwise this really isn't anything more than a cross gen port for people who own a ps4 and haven't played the game yet.

Having a PS4 version also allows Sony to offer TLOU on PS+ just before the release of TLOU2.