That is what a walled gardened fixed spec machine gets you. Why blame Sony or any console maker for that? It's the name of the game since the Atari days.
Horizon: Zero Dawn leaving PS+ May 21st (speculation a remake announcement is coming)
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That is what a walled gardened fixed spec machine gets you. Why blame Sony or any console maker for that? It's the name of the game since the Atari days.
A Horizon Netflix series is coming so something Horizon game related will no doubt be released leading up to the show. It will sell and Horizon Forbidden West will gain more sell just like what we saw with Last of Us when the HBO show came out and what we saw with Fallout games selling again with the Amazon show. I just think that a remake of Zero Dawn is too soon.
Remakes can expose a game to a new audience that wasn't there the first time, which can positively give them the sales they may've deserved originally but didn't because of market circumstances. For example, a Panzer Dragoon Saga remake would EASILY outsell the original version, because the original version was hampered by the SEGA Saturn and SEGA's bad business conflicts during that era.
Also considering that gaming is both an entertainment business and artform, a question of responsibility should be posited upon the platform holders to ask what they are doing to help promote creativity within the space. A remake of a last-gen game that still runs and plays perfectly fine in a modern context, and already sold 20+ million in its own right, is a very irresponsible leveraging of that responsibility WRT promotion of creativity, especially when that platform holder can be seriously questioned in other areas of upholding it when considering a lot of their output the past few years have been remakes, remasters, and "safe" (as in, big AAA) sequels to already well-established IP.
Yes, a successful business needs those types of games, but a truly industry-leading platform holder also needs to, IMHO, uphold fostering of creativity in the best possible way. That means having some skin in the game among their own output. So things like the China Hero Project, etc. from Sony are great initiatives, but those should not be the only means in which they are pursuing fostering creativity growth within the industry. Their own 1P output should be doing that as well and for every HZD remake (or remaster), they could've done a remake for a more obscure game to grow that IP and add to their stable, or a remaster collection with QOL improvements of a more obscure legacy IP to build it up towards something bigger.
It's the balanced focus, and I think SIE have lost that balance this gen over the past couple of years. It's quite unfortunate to see, but at this point they have to show they still have it, that they still have "the tiger eye" in a hunger to push the console gaming market to new potentials. And a HZD remake just ain't it.