Seriously. Enough with these so called "HD Remasters" that the PS4 is getting. This system is going to end up with more ports than new,  next gen games.  Look, I don't mind an HD remaster of a game that was on PS2 because that at least made sense. But now it's just getting ridiculous with having to do a "HD Remaster" of a game that's ALREADY IN HD  and can easily be played on PS3 (looking at you Last of Us, Final Fantasy X/X-2, and God of War 3). 

 

Look, I know that this is a smart business decision for game companies since this gives them more oney to fund new games for the next-gen systems but come on. I'm pretty sure a lot of people bought a PS4 for new games instead of previous gen games that they've played before on PS3. Type-0 HD is an exception because that game never got localized to the west back when it was on PSP. So I give that game a slide. Along with maybe Resident Evil HD Remaster since the GC is dead and the games on it are either very rare or very hard to find. So I guess that deserves a pass too.

 

But my point is, it really feels like the PS4 is being used to play previous gen games that people "missed out on" than it is with completely new games. This so called "Next gen gaming" isn't looking all that grand so far with all these ports of games already in HD. Again I don't mind HD remasters. It's just I hate how most of these "next gen games" are a port of a port already in HD.

Edited March 24, 201510 yr by Tails

On one hand it would make sense for Sony to ditch PS3 backwards compatibility for these kind of blind fanboys to kiss their butt, but it also doesn't make sense since if someone was such a suck up to Sony like you said they would already own a PS3 to play these games. -______- HD remasters are just filler games until bigger AAA titles are released, which isn't all bad every time, but yeah, I agree that the apologists defending these remasters by saying that they're helping the PS4 win this generation with a library of "original" games are becoming obnoxious.

 

The decision to ditch backwards compatibility was so they could use better architecture and make it easier to develop for.

 

Honestly my opinion on the ports depends on the title. If you're porting just God of War III for example I think it's stupid, at least do the whole trilogy, it's the 10th anniversary of the first one after all. For games like The Last of Us and Tomb Raider it's understandable since so many people didn't play them on last gen and there's no point waiting 5 years, their sequels will be new gen after all.