Banking a Little Too Hard on Nostalgia
We all love nostalgia trips. Being able to revisit the very games that made us all fall in love with this hobby of ours. It’s become all the rage to release remasters of every single major video game ever since the PS4 and Xbox One released, and it looked like it was starting to die down for a moment. But Sony kicked it back into high gear recently, and they’ve been chugging along with their rose-colored shades for the past few months now.
Now there’s nothing wrong with banking on the tried and true. It helps to fill in the gaps between major releases and gives new players a chance to try something they may have missed out on. But their competition is pushing into newer things, and while the PS4 creators definitely have big games in the pipeline, they need to be careful with their messaging. Push too many old games and the PS4 will soon look like the rerun-box.
A balance will help out quite a bit in this regard. As long as they’re careful going forward, Sony can keep it quite clear that there is a lot more to play than the hits of yesteryear.
