Some people honestly believe that if a small crew of studio personel worked on an entirely new game instead then it would have somehow been released. They believe spending a few weeks with a skeleton crew to remaster a title for a new generation of gamers is a bad thing.

Me personally, I couldn't care less. There is a market for it, so why not satisfy it. Let the crybabies whine about stupid shit.

When you really get down to it and realize, yes, they really are complaining about stupid shit and it is even worse when they try to impose some bogus rules about how long a game needs to wait before being remastered.

To those who whine about it being a money grab, don't buy. Simple as that.

Embarassing the things gamers complain about.

Why would someone want to buy old outdated hardware to play an inferior version of a game when its the same price on next gen hardware?

I just don't understand gamers today its like they feel they're being insulted when a publisher re-releases a game.  If you've already played it on previous hardware, move on and don't buy it.

well, I'm playing TLoU Remastered and, while I don't regret the purchase, I have to say the upgrade is pretty miniscule. I got it for $30 and it does contain the Left Behind DLC but I had to fire up both the PS3 and PS4 games, side by side to see the improvements. The 60fps are noticeable, though. Hopefully, by the time I reach the clickers etc, they have more polygons or something.

Best of the Best mentality. Their copy was the best. Than they make a better one. *Cue camera pull out on Homer as he curses*

I'm not crying tears of joy but they don't bother me. Why? Cause I can choose not to interact with them. Simple.

If there is a remaster I want (TLoU and DmC) I will get it, play it and be super duper happy. If there is a remaster i don't give a shit about (...uhhhh) I won't play it. Some other folks will get a kick out of it.

I will never understand why people get so bent out of shape over remasters, like they fucked their mom and didn't call back or missed that really important softball game.

Your comparison to movies / music is flawed. Difference is we didn't get VHS to DVD and DVD to HD/Blu Ray remasters of movies, or vinyl to cassette and cassette to CD a year apart from one another.

I've no problem with say Nintendo rereleasing old N64 games with better textures and in 3D today for example. It's a little hard to swallow all these "definitive" rereleases of games that just came out within the past year or so at full MSRP however.

To whom?

PS3 owners? I hardly doubt it, they already played the game and those who had a PS4 could trade in their old one (PS3 version) and make the PS4 version half price ($25) That's what I did, best decision on that case. People have said it themselves, the graphical difference is not that great (even a biased ND lover like me can see that) and the performance is nicer on MP but not revolutionary. You are not gaining much from buying it again.

Naughty Dog? The remaster sold well, really goddamn well. That means they get more time to work on their other project and more revenue to use toward projects. It helps the franchise grow in popularity on 8th gen for when the inevitable TLoU2 drops.

The game was strictly for anybody who missed out on, and I am going to emphasize this shit out of this, the most awarded game in the history of gaming making it arguably the best game in history, a chance to get experience it. I know many people saw that over 30% (or close to that) of PS4 owners did not own a PS3 in the last gen so they get the most out of this remaster.

So I will ask again, who is the remaster hurting?

Yes, we did... many 2004/2005 movies that were released in 2005/2006 on DVD were re-released a year later on HD DVD or Blu-ray... King Kong, Serenity, Sin City and many others.

The generation shift from VHS to DVD was similar... many movies that year were first released on VHS and 6 - 18 months later on DVD.

That happened during transition periods, and it will happen again with 4k blu-ray coming next year.

Plus movies are all about remasters. They release in the theaters first, with a digital/physical remaster half a year to a year later. Movies have tons of remasters on the same format. For the big movies, you'll get an extended cut a year later. Then after a series is complete you get the box set. During the DVD era you had superbit collection rereleases, on blu-ray you have 4K mastered rereleases, or simply rereleases with better codecs. All at full price.

Games have always had so called goty editions on the same format, a year later, usually with some dlc or other extras included. Yet nobody cares about that. When the goty edition is on a new system and actually runs better it's a problem?

I always thought that they should've just released The Last of Us for the PS4 originally, like during Q4 2014. Naughty Dog seems to start each console with a new IP and The Last of Us could've been a huge exclusive for the PS4 for 2014, which it needs.