Quote Originally Posted by kupomogli View Post
these ports are stopping new games from being developed.
They're not. Reread what you quoted, if you even read it the first time.

To begin with, the average port or remaster requires a tiny fraction of the time and budget of a brand-new game. There are a lot of them because they're relatively quick and cheap to make. They're not eating up the resources necessary to create a brand-new game. Even remakes can run the gamut, with some being quite low-budget (such as the 3D remake of Secret of Mana). If a company is refraining from making brand-new games, then they just don't want to take the risk. The cost to make games has grown exponentially, and it doesn't always pay off.

You bring up NIS. Well, outside of Disgaea, there don't have much that's sold gangbusters, so there's little incentive to keep making brand-new games if they're going to sell like htoL#NiQ, A Rose in the Twilight, Yomawari, Penny-Punching Princess, etc. I bought those games when they first came out, along with many others, so I did my part to encourage NIS to develop more new games. Did you? And for what it's worth, they are currently working on a new Phantom Brave. NISA, as a localizer, is bringing out new games too (like the aforementioned Ys games). But I'm very happy that they've been rereleasing a lot of older games as well. If you ask me, the best thing NIS/NISA has done this generation is release the second and third Marl Kingdom games in the West in English for the first time ever. Last I checked, Digital Press is a primarily retro-focused gaming site, so we are supposed to care about older games too, right?

Anyway, I don't know where you're looking, but I hear about tons of brand-new games coming out from all variety of developers, even outside of indies. It's on you if you can't find anything among those you want to play, and if you're not buying them, that just reinforces that it's not worth the risk to make them. And if you do buy loads of new games and refrain from buying ports and things are still not going in the direction you want, well, tough luck. If ports are successful, then that means lots of people like them, and their wants are worth catering to as well. The industry doesn't exist to serve your tastes alone.