Copy-Paste Culture: How the Remake Obsession Is Slowly Suffocating New Ideas in Gaming
Major publishers are greenlighting remakes and remasters at a pace that would've seemed absurd a decade ago, and the numbers suggest it's working — at least in the short term. But with original IPs getting fewer and fewer shots at the spotlight, some analysts are asking whether the industry is quietly trading its creative future for a safer present. We dug into the data, talked to the people watching the money, and tried to figure out what's really going on.