"Remakes succeed because individuals who played classic titles as children have continued to game as adults and have the disposable income to spend on nostalgia," wrote Carter Rogers, a principal analyst with Nielsen-owned SuperData, in an analysis of the video game remake market. And since 2017, Sony has worked with support studios like Toys for Bob, Vicarious Visions and Iron Galaxy to remaster classics like Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot. It purchased longtime partner and remake developer Bluepoint, the studio behind its successful Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes, earlier this year. Sony in particular has invested heavily in remakes and remasters. Nintendo, too, just re-released graphically improved versions of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for the Switch, while Bethesda re-released an anniversary edition of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for newer platforms earlier this month. in July when it was released, and Super Mario 3D World, an enhanced version of a 2013 Nintendo 3DS game, was ranked fifth bestselling game of the year, according to NPD Group.Ĭountless others are in the pipeline, from EA's Dead Space remakes to the Final Fantasy pixel remaster series, and quite a few have seen huge success in the last few years, like the Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Capcom's Resident Evil 2 remake. Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD was the bestselling game in the U.S.
In fact, some of the bestselling games in 2021 have been remakes or remasters.
According to analyst firm Nielsen, digital revenue for the top video game remakes has nearly doubled between 20. "The people that enjoyed these games as kids or teenagers are now adults with enough budget to purchase remastered games (or remakes), without giving it much second thought."Īs is the case in Hollywood, the appetite for remasters and remakes has become a sizable and fast-growing segment in the video game industry. "What plays a huge role is that we now have generations of adults that grew up playing these games," gaming analytics firm Newzoo told Protocol. Those players in turn have become target customers for video game publishers looking to breathe new life into long-dormant products. That's truer now than ever, partly because the primary population of gamers who grew up during the dawn of the console era happens to now be middle-aged adults with more disposable income.
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Gamers love to re-experience games from their childhood, and especially so if a developer puts in the extra work to update graphics and streamline in-game systems.
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That these Grand Theft Auto games were, until recently, widely available on almost every platform imaginable, from PC to smartphones to even Amazon's Fire OS, is besides the point. Though the game's been plagued by bugs and performance issues, Rockstar last week released Grand Theft Auto: The Definitive Edition, a remastered trilogy of the PlayStation 2 era open-world games that helped define a generation of gaming in the 2000s. A growing pillar of the video game industry runs on nostalgia, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the market for remakes and remasters.