Discussion | Do we need remasters & remakes?

Two of the biggest games of this year are remakes. Dead Space and Resident Evil 4. Now don’t get me wrong, they’re both very good games but so were the originals.

So the question is…

Do we really need remakes & remasters or should publishers and developers spend the money, time and resources on new games and should more effort be put into backwards compatibility to enable people to play the original games on modern hardware?