You're really going to keep defending these remaster even as the news gets worse and worse... And worse? If I were a huge Sony fan and bought a ps4 day one, I'd be PISSED. Hell, when nintendo announced WWHD I was like.. Really? Did we need this? Come to find out that there might actually be good reasons for that remaster, but anyways, when is enough for you? Seriously, where do you draw the line? 

Lets just pretend the long list of AAAs and Indies dont exist them shall we? Spend your money on what you like, let others do the same. Sure is nice to have the choice tho Remasters check, indies check, F2P check, AAA check, MMO's check

The reason there is no backwards compatibility is the same reason there was no backwards compatibility for N64, SNES, and GCN for Nintendo.  And to a lesser extent Xbox One, Xbox 360.  It's too expensive.  

I would accept these remasters if the consoles theyre on had BC.

why? if YOU dont see the value in it and YOU believe it to be a cash grab...... dont buy it. Its just another option for people that are interested in this. Again what the big deal?

If the cost is minimal, I would think that position wouldn't matter at all. If a remaster only costs a fraction of the original budgetm then at £40 a pop, even if only 100K sell, that's what? £1.2M of almost pure profit (since not much money would need to go into recouping dev costs). And that's for low sales.

I don't think being in 1st place has anything to do with the affordability (in terms of marketshare) of that kind of potential. Not to mention, they still have games coming out, so it's not like "we're in first, so we're not gonna give new games, only old ones". Nintendo could remaster Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for WiiU and Microsoft could remaster Lost Odyssey for XBone, and as long as they're still releasing the new games they told us they're going to release, there should be absolutely no complaints. The fact that TLOU was in the works didn't prevent I:SS from coming out, nor did it put UC4 behind schedule, for example (for people who would say that Sony should put their resources elsewhere). So what's the problem?

Sony could announce 100 remasters right now, and as long as DriveClub, LBP3, Blodbourne, etc. come out...why should I or anyone else take issue with it? As long as remasters don't tamper with the production schedule of other games, being able to "afford to make them" has absolutely 0 relevance. If they don't interefere with other games, all the companies can afford minimal cost with maximum return potential.

yep seems like it! imagine if they were kicking the competition ass!

i sense sarcasm in this post.. and if that is true, the joke is actually on you because sony is doing the worst out of everybody.. so thinking of this as a desperation tactic does make more sense than you probably realize.