Remasters and ports have become more frequent than ever in the past few years. It's a way for companies to make a quick buck and they are popular among fans as can be seen by the sales of certain games.

However (and this may also just be wishful thinking) I believe companies should do what Sony did with Ghost of Tsushima add new content to the remaster, vs just a resolution update or small quality of life improvements. This should be the next step for future remasters and ports. Additions like this will attract positive press and reviews and should increase interest in the release. The extra sales will make up for the extra effort. Plus, they'll have a valid excuse to charge full or near full price for the rerelease.

Most remasters include the DLC (if the game previously had any) but I dont recall any other remasters or ports outside of Ghost of Tsushima to add new content to its release. At least note since RE4 for PS2!

Many have added new content. Sony is far from the first. We were getting ports with extra content as far back as the 16-bit era. Enhanced ports at times. Hyper Duel on Saturn had both the Arcade mode with older graphics and content and the Saturn mode with redone visuals, music and gameplay. ZOE2 on PS4 not only added 4k support but a whole new optional mode to play the entire game in VR from the Cockpit point of view. There are many examples of remasters enhancing the game and adding content. There are many games of the past and even 8th gen that added a bunch of stuff. Xenoblade redid the visuals and music. Plus QOL changes and a whole new story mode. This is far from new. Definitive Editions are fine. We don't need to pretend GoT somehow set some new standard when this has been done for 30 years. Yes many devs do a quick buck as with anything but many also do a lot.

I did not intend for my post to come off as Sony being the first ones to do so, far from it (I even mentioned that RE4 did it on PS2).

I was just trying to make a point and used GoT as an example since its the latest big rerelease.

I don't get this reasoning

If they never re-release and don't make additional content then nobody will play the new content

Instead if they re released they make up to customers decide if they want to pay again and enjoy the new content or just skipping it

In either case, why deprive people who wants more to have more? 

You also have the option to still buying the cheaper version if you don't want to buy the most expensive. Like Persona 5, you can buy the cheaper standard version or the more expensive Royal version 

Director's Cuts are nothing but a method to trick you into buying the same thing over. So it has some minor changes in the content, why not have these changes in the base game already? So you're telling me that these minor changes justify anther full price when the base game just released less than two years ago? I don't think so.

Resident Evil 1 on the PS1 already did this. They swapped some room placements and called it a day. If you're dumb enough to buy into this scam, more power to you.

I don't get this. Nowadays no gamer wants to pay full price anymore, or so I thought. Yet here we are praising obvious cash grabs.

You can upgrade it for 20 USD if you have the base game. And I'm sure either will be 10 USD in some months. And you can also keep your saves, it's a better deal than let's say buying a stand alone new edition (thinking something like FF XII vs FF XII Zodiac Age)  

Anyway I've bought the base game for 20 USD, even with the upgrade still cheaper than 60 USD (or 70 if it's a next Gen game) 

I think the difference is I don't want to pay 60 USD and risky disliking it. But I don't mind spending extra money in a game I already like. And of course, I will only buy the upgrade/DLCs if I liked the base game in first place and feel the upgrade make any sense. That are many games that I wouldn't mind be charged again for them because I liked them, but that are games that I regretted even losing my time playing. It's suck for me we aren't charged by our satisfaction but it is what it is 

But I totally agree it's a cash grab. It's just a nicer one I guess 

But you can upgrade from original version for 20 USD and get the extra content of DC version. What's the issue?

I would not use No More Heroes as an example. It runs much worse with a worse frame rate. Horrible collision detection. A lot of screen tearing and some bad input lag. It's a bad port. So the extra content is moot when a PS3 game could not run better than a Wii game. Good reason the modern HD ports are based on the Wii versions.

TBF on DQXI. The game was rebuilt and essentially remade for Switch Hardware on a different version of UE4. Switch did not support the older version of UE4. The new content was incompatible with the older versions. Rather than scaled down like many UE ports. The S version of the game was built for Switch.

There's a lot of games in the industry--it's impossible to keep track of every single game. But the first one that comes to mind is Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition. They added a new story called Future Connected that they didn't charge for. It was included in the remaster.