HD remasters and remakes of previously released games are a growing trend, with everybody from Sony to Microsoft doubling down on giving older games a new coat of paint...and a new price tag.
But one of the biggest publishers in the industry has so far avoided pumping out HD versions of their more popular games: EA. Often times a video game industry scapegoat (the publisher has been voted the worst company in America multiple times), it's true that EA hasn't engaged in pumping out remasters. So what gives?
As EA COO Peter Moore tells IGN in a new interview, EA isn't interesting in doing HD remakes, going on to say that he doesn't know where the publisher would find the time to re-do old games in the first place.
"Remakes, because of who we are, and this broad portfolio of intellectual property...you add all that together, I don't know where we find the time to do remakes," Moore says. "We're a company that just likes to push forward."
However, he definitely sees the appeal of repackaging previously released material.
"For a lot of companies, remakes are a way to drive revenue," he continues. "It's sub-cost, it's an IP that's there, you can remaster, and that's great. We don't do that here. I don't think that's ever been in our culture."
Moore says that when a company routinely pushes out HD remakes, it feels like they've run out of ideas. It's hard to argue with Moore's reasoning. Two of the biggest games of the past two years, Halo: The Master Chief Collection from Microsoft and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection from Sony, are both HD remastered collections of older games in each ongoing franchise.
But those two games only scratch the surface. We've seen The Last of Us: Remastered. Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. Dishonored: Definitive Edition. Rare Replay. The list goes on and on, and will likely continue to do so in the future.
Just don't expect a Mass Effect trilogy remaster to be among them.
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