I'm a fan of the Yakuza series and Yakuza 3, 4, Dead Souls, 5, 0, and Kiwami use the exact same graphics engine. While Kiwami and 0 are better looking, they still use the same engine. Every single game from the very first title in the series all the way up to the upcoming Kiwami 2 also have Kamurocho, 2, 0, and Kiwami 2 have Sotenbori. Each game in the series has a completely different story, completely different side quests, and many of the games in the series had different mini games(while gambling games usually carry over throughout,) but there's a bit of laziness going from 0 to Kiwami and 6 to Kiwami 2 where many of the mini games are just rehashed. Even though Yakuza 6 has its own new mini games that have never appeared before there are quite a bit of mini games, and then the move to the new graphics engine breaks all sorts of stuff when it comes to combat. Everyone of these games are great and still worth getting, just giving my thoughts on the whole rehash thing.

However, it's not that it's a new gen. Being able to rehash the same content over and over is a publishers dream. Look at Capcom, Monster Hunter has been near identical since game one. 90 different versions of every Street Fighter. Now a little bit different, but how many Capcom beat em ups released in the arcades late 80s and throughout the 90s. Sure they might be a bit different in graphical quality, but it was the same basic gameplay with a different coat of paint. Capcom and many other developers churned games in this genre out like there's no tomorrow.

I'm not a fan of sports games, but, there's less around now than there were in the past. I did a quick Google search and found a video stating that there were 26 SNES American football games. 26. Now, it does give you more of a choice than just one game with a yearly roster update, but this means that the SNES had four, nearly five football games released per year up to the launch of the N64. Baseball being a popular sport across the world has 57 games on the SNES, nearly 10 games per year. Since sports were brought up thought I'd point it out, because it shows just how many of the same games have been pushed out on past consoles as well.