{"id":831993,"date":"2026-07-29T20:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831993\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:51:18","slug":"gamers-are-more-interested-in-remakes-than-new-games-says-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831993\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamers are more interested in remakes than new games, says analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently the data keeps backing up an analyst who would rather it didn’t. Circana’s Mat Piscatella<\/a> noted on Bluesky that the PS5 has effectively become “the Call of Duty box<\/a>,” with 2012’s Black Ops II re-release topping weekly PlayStation Network charts ahead of Fortnite, NBA 2K26, and Marvel Rivals.<\/p>\n

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He said he wanted the top of these charts mixed up, but was hoping for new games doing the mixing, not decade-old ports. It looks like the general trend agrees with him more than he’d like. Piscatella has floated the idea that gamers are simply happier replaying old favorites in remake form, and while he admits this part is more gut feeling than hard data, the numbers around him are hard to ignore.<\/p>\n

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is the clearest example. The remake sold 3.5 million copies<\/a> in 14 days, blowing past Ubisoft’s full-year sales target before its first month was even over. Ubisoft’s own CFO has since admitted remakes may be more profitable<\/a> than new entries, since they reuse assets, need less marketing, and sell on nostalgia alone. Resynced also outpaced Assassin’s Creed Shadows<\/a> in day-one revenue by more than double.<\/p>\n

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Black Flag Resynced isn’t alone either. Halo Campaign Evolved has drawn strong interest ahead of launch, and Black Ops II is still topping charts years after its original release. Between these top-tier franchises, it’s hard to find a corner of the charts that isn’t propped up by something old wearing a new costume.<\/p>\n

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The appeal also makes sense from a business standpoint. A remake carries almost none of the risk a new IP does. Players already know the story, the mechanics, and whether they liked it the first time, so publishers spend less time convincing anyone to buy in. That’s a much safer bet than gambling a few hundred million dollars on an unproven concept.<\/p>\n

I think there’s something else going on too, though this part is just my own take. A lot of these 2010s games simply had an “it factor” that newer releases have struggled to recapture, whether that’s tighter pacing, a stronger identity, or just less bloat competing for attention.<\/p>\n

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Consumers benefit in the short term, getting more polished, cheaper-to-produce revisits of games they already love. The bigger question is whether publishers keep taking creative risks on new franchises at all if remakes keep printing money this reliably. It can quickly turn into a vicious cycle where developers just refuse to take risks, and instead lean on older games as an easy cash-grab opportunity with an almost guaranteed reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apparently the data keeps backing up an analyst who would rather it didn’t. Circana’s Mat Piscatella noted on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-831993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}