You guys are such whiners, honestly all things considered I don't mind HD Remasters and ports. There are so many games out there now that I have not played, I didn't buy my switch until the end of 2023, and just got around to playing things like Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario Odyssey effectively 8-10 years after release. If a game is good, it deserves a port and a potential new audience.
But most of all, what is stopping new games from being developed is that there are old games that are excellent and standing the test of time. Movies and music industry are running into this problem as well. There are so many great old games out there that it has become a competition of a consumer dusting off forgotten classics and competing with, like someone said earlier in this thread, new games that are total trash. Dustborn and Concord cost tens of millions of dollars. Nintendo rerelases Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy and makes hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://kotaku.com/old-games-2023-playtime-data-fortnite-roblox-minecraft-1851382474
Statistics like these are why Nintendo will rerelease even a commercial dud like Xenoblade Chronicles X in the hope that it sells better on Switch than create a new game that is a total question mark. Far less investment for something that 95% of people didn't play the first time around. Its a win win for consumers and businesses in my view.
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