>>65810226The actual real explanation is: Video games are fucking EXPENSIVE.
But yes also creatively bankruptMaking a game is such a monumental risk these days, you can pour millions and millions of dollars into one and potentially get jack shit back if one of your employees says something dumb on twitter or some youtuber says it sucks.
There is MONUMENTAL risk to making any game with so much money on the line, and so many paychecks to fufill. So with all of that in mind, a remake is incredibly safe. As long as you don't make it aggressively awful you can basically predict exactly how much money it will make.
Keep in mind I'm not defending remake spam, I think it's shit too, just explaining why they happen so often 
