EA Games: Publishers Pushing PS4 Remasters Have Run Out of Ideas

Said it a million times and I'll say it again: EA would be mad to stop BioWare from making a Mass Effect Trilogy remaster. I can't think of a better candidate for a PS4 remaster. It'd be a massive shame if console newcomers didn't get to play those games.

Hahahahaha EA saying others have run out of ideas? It's not in their culture to remaster? They have remastered Fifa for 20 years. Many american sports for the same length, Tiger/Rory golf for 15 years, sometimes not even bothering with that much work and simply changing the number next to the name and hoping nobody notices. Remaking Need for Speed for 20 years, constant rehashes of Battlefield oh and what's their next game? Yes a remake/sequel of a 10 year old game of a 35 year old movie franchise, because nobody has made a star wars game before. I can totally see where he's coming from by saying "We're a company that just likes to push forward,"

It's a shame your backwards compatability views are this way Sammy, since it was a point of contention with the PS3.

However, Virtual Console services are fine. Because it makes you money. Selectively. If the releases are in your region. SCEE you useless bunch of....anyway...

AKA, we don't see at it as the profitable action at this moment. This may be subject to change at any time.
Anyways though, I can't think of any EA remasters I want off the top of my head.

Take it we won't be getting a Mass Effect remaster then :'-(

@carlos82 Haha beat me to it, thanks you saved me writing it!

@carlos82 took the words right out of my mouth

"We don't do remasters!"
Says the people who reskin the following games every or almost every year -
Madden
Fifa
BattleField
NBA Live
NHL
The Sims

I'm going to laugh so hard when the Mass Effect remaster is announced. And not because it will lack quality content, all 3 of those games are massive and are in the very good-great category, but the hypocrisy will just be too much.

"One view that we do share with the executive is on backward compatibility – and not just because it was recently revealed for the Xbox One. "In the old days, backward compatibility was to convince your Mum to buy the new console – not that you were ever going to use it," he added. "Once you got it? Those things went in the drawer, or on eBay."
He's so right!"

Sorry Sammy, you can't defend remasters in the same article where you declare BC to be meaningless for a consumer. If the PS4 had BC you wouldn't have to shell out $60 for a remaster, you could get it on eBay, where everyone was selling them.

Remakes and remasters are simply here to hide the fact that there aren't enough games to keep everyone satisfied and to make some easy money because developing games got so expensive. It's ridiculous to say BC is bs just because the choir you're preaching to doesn't want to hear it's actually a very nice option to have. More and more you guys are apologizing on behalf of Sony and I commented on this a couple of times already. Please read this article again and pretend you are a console agnostic reader or better yet, a console agnostic journalist....I'm positive you'll feel silly afterwards.

Shots fired!

It would be stupid not to remaster Mirrors Edge and Mass Effect...

@Boerewors Some games I'd rather see remastered than play em on the previous generation consoles, especially since they aged very badly (graphically)

@ShogunRok I'm a huge me fan, but after playing through the first two games multiple times and me3 to the conclusion I wouldn't buy a hd version.

I wouldn't mind a 'where in time is Carmen sandiago' or 'road rash' remaster. To be honest I agree with EA on this one. I'm so glad to be playing through unchartered and tlou hd but after these games only heavy rain is a last gen must play that isn't available. There is nothing from EA I would rebuy.

Everyone knocking Fifa which is an easy target - go take a look at whatever game you are playing now and compare it to Fifa. The game has so much content is so polished and is great to play. I like the yearly updates and am happy to pay £40 for it.

@AyeHaley @get2sammyb 100% agree if the PS4 played PS3 games I doubt I'd buy a single one and would still have bought TLOU remaster ahead of the PS3 game for example. I actually still own a PS3 but no longer use it for games (just for Netflix in another room) and will still buy the Uncharted collection ahead of simply buying the old games. Not all remasters are worth it but for those that have put the effort in I'm more than happy to consider it.

Barely have time to play PS4 games let alone worry about backwards compatibility, if you want it just keep the old console...

I used backwards compatibility once on PS3 for a Tomb Raider game that came out on PS2 just after launch. That's it. Never looked at it since. I don't see the point in complaining about it not being there when you can pick up a a PS3 for next to nothing, if you don't already have one.

Adding it to PS4 doesn't seem overly likely to me. Unlike PS2 and early PS3s, it doesn't have the previous generation's hardware built in to handle emulation. And while PS4 is powerful, I don't think the leap is significant enough to emulate the Cell in software - Microsoft managed with the Xbone because the 360's PowerPC architecture isn't a million miles away from the x86 used now, whereas the x86 and Cell are worlds apart. I just don't think it's possible.

As for remasters, I've bought 2 - The Last Of Us and Uncharted - purely because the games are THAT good. That said, I haven't bought an EA game since Battlefield 4; most of their games are iterations on previous versions, and it's rare they offer anything truly new either. I even stopped buying FIFA a few years back, as I just wasn't playing it. I play once a week with a mate, using his copy... but I've seen nothing to tempt me into buying it again. I won't be bothering with Battlefront either since there's no single-player - just a Star Wars skin on BF4 multi-player, using elements of the original Star Wars story... where's the new ideas in that?

He's wrong if EA was smart they would ask Dice to remake bad company 2. We all can agree that battlefield has went down hill since that installment. The remake will kill and do numbers. The battlefield community has been left hanging for the past 3 years. A remake could give them some time to gain more feedback and ideas for the next one while they handle battlefront.....ummm that's pretty much a remake just from ps2 it's not called battlefront 3..there's already a battlefront 2 and u come out with battlefront...REMAKE!! Look at your ps2 titles, u guys have the best game library out of all the generations. How you guys remake a ps2 game and say u run out of ideas and u have way more hits on ps2 than u have had on ps3 and ps4 combined probably. Maybe if each would announce a worldwide poll on what games we wanted to be remade, maybe they would have some legit ideas.

Damn, out of all the remasters I wanted, a Mass Effect Trilogy one was on the top of my list

I'm going to throw my hat in here. I think remastering or doing a full remake of a game from a few generations back isn't a bad idea. Hell the game be nigh impossible to find in your region anymore at that point (See Gamecube + UK) so something like Grim Fandango, The Wind Waker, Resident Evil REmake etc. etc. are good moves. It brings those games forwards and stops them being lost to time a la Megaman in the EU (I still hate SCEE can you tell?)

What I'm not cool with is taking a 2013 game and making it HDer for 2014. Or taking a remaster of 2 PS2 titles, and then remastering that a year later. What is the point?

The worst kind though, even though its not truly a remaster, is the "Ultimate Edition/Arcade Edition/Dante from DMC Edition/Rolex and a Mini-Fridge with keys to a sports car Turbo HD Remix Deluxe". You know, the 6 month to a year later all the DLC included kind of deal.

Or you know...talking about EA for a moment....the Mass Effect Trilogy for $10 less while ME3 is full price with no DLC on another console around the same time. That too.

@XCWarrior
Lol that's the same thing I was thinking. They say publishers are "running out of ideas" but how much do those games you mentioned actually bring "new ideas" ?... They may not be remasters but they aren't anything new or innovative either

The hypocrisy...
Yeah while they don't technically do remasters (YET!), his argument is that "they've run out of ideas". That's rich coming from a company that hasn't had a single new idea for years. The balls on this guy are admirable though, I must admit.

I guess they don't want the money I would 100% give them for Mass Effect Trilogy remastered...

Yeah, like releasing a soccer, a football, a baseball, a golf, and so on EVERY YEAR is the definition of creativity!

Lol. We don't do remasters cos we can simply add 2 new players in the next FIFA or Madden and yo we got yo suckas. And you don't need PSN or Steam cos we suck you into our EA subscriptions. We don't do remasters cos rather than giving new players a higher definition/better FPS experience, we can milk you for dlc instead. Lol we don't need to make the game better or improve textures better cos we can build a new crappy map and charge yo $10 for it. Or a new gun for $2.50!! yay aren't we so sweet and innocent?!! Remasters are a great way to access/enjoy games that some people have never tried before in full HD/60fps eg. borderlands collection/Uncharted collection/Metro. If EA could bring out Mass Effect trilogy or Need for Speed trilogy don't ya think some players could benefit from that? Peter Moore you spin doctor you!!

@get2sammyb I still use my PS3 to play PS1 games and because of that I'll never sell it.

The PC just got a Fallout anthology. God I wish we got it on console. I know there is alot more work bringing the whole series to PS4 and Xbox, but I know it would have sold very well in the run up to Fallout 4.

Almost funny that EA calls out other publishers. I hope this doesn't mean that Mass Effect trilogy is off the table. I've never played it, but I sure as heck wouldn't mind.

EA is the last company that should be criticising anyone. The sheer gall of this knob.

Oh, and backwards compatibility. The 'out of touch' Nintendo offers it. The 'evil' Microsoft is working on offering it. But Sony? No, they're content to just let you buy them again via remasters and the dreadful PS Now. Good way to fill the almost non-existent flow of original games.

I do want remasters of some of my favorite games. I also use backwards compatibility on my PS3 from time to time. I am very mad that the original idea of "PlayStation" went away. The original idea I remember was that the newer consoles were always going to have backwards compatibility. I always want the option of playing older games without worrying about if my old console messes up that I can no longer play some of my favorite classics. I would gladly pay for it. Just like I had no problem with paying $600 for the PS3 at release because I knew it had all I wanted at the time. I would have paid $600 again for a PS4 with full PlayStation backwards compatibility. They should make different models that have the backwards compatibility and some without which should please everyone as well as attract more customers. Too bad Sony executives made a poor decision on hosing backwards compatibility because that tells me the ones making the decisions aren't gamers but money hungry and can care less about their legacy fans.

this coming from a company whose mainstay is yearly sport releases with little to zero innovation each year

plus notice how they pick up on PlayStation for doing it but not Microsoft who has also started to do it (Master Chief Collection, Gears of War Ultimate etc)

@hYdeks
ME Trilogy Remastered is going to happen, there's not doubt in my mind.

@FullbringIchigo
EA is pretty much in bed with MS this gen, it's kind of like how Capcom won't be firing shots at Sony. You are right though. MS has been given a pass for remasters by the Xbox guys but on the other hand, Sony has been given a pass by the PS guys. And the Xbox idiots want to hide behind the 'well at least Xbox has backwards compatibility' nonsense, like that negates the presence of remasters which it absolutely does not. The hypocrisy is strong on both sides though I find it especially hilarious when the anti-PS4 camp comes here in b*tching about the coverage, once again, on a PS website. Do these morons not realize there are other places to get their anti-PlayStation bullsh*t?

Am I the only one who still uses backwards compatibility? I have so many games to finish on DS, Wii, (PS3...).

@Gamer83 you know i never have understood why people attack one system or it's users because at the end of the day it's the games that are important not what you play them on

it's like Star Trek v Star Wars or Marvel v DC, when people bring it up it's always you have to like one or the other, well i say why not both?

@FullbringIchigo
Same way I view it. What's really funny to me though is people acting like they expect writers at a console-specific websites to bash said console and said console maker. It'd be like me writing into OXM asking them to stop the blatant fanboyism that works its way into the mag sometimes. It would be a waste of time on my part.

This guy sure talks a lot of crap.

@Totaldude911 Well DS and Wii are incredibly easy to emulate - the Wii was very easy to emulate almost as soon as it came out because it was basically a slightly upgraded Gamecube and that already had emulators.

I think the combination between re-releases and emulation really take a lot of the thunder away from backwards compatibility. I have a physical, original copy of FFVII behind me now. I don't think I've ever put it in the PS2 or PS3. I've played the Steam version a lot, though. 140 hours in total.

I couldn't bear to play Xenoblade Chronicles on my actual Wii because the flicker was so god-awful and distracting. Ripped it to my PC, though, and played it at 1080p with anti-aliasing and it was great. Did the same with Skyward Sword.

@Matroska That sounds fancy. The only problem I've run into with emulating DS is the combination of touch screen and buttons. PC has physical buttons and Mobile does touch well, but you have to do some work to get both control schemes comfortably at the same time.

@Gamer83 Didn't Sony get the ad rights for Battlefront though? Probably one of the biggest releases this holiday, money wise anyways. EACH is big time corporate, and will do or say whatever favors them at the time, regardless of any other consoles or games developers.

@SonyInfinity
Sony got the bundle and marketing deal for Star Wars Battlefront but you can still play the game first on Xbox One through EA Access so both companies have some kind of advantage. EA has mostly been in bed with MS there's not question about it. Although I don't necessarily blame them either. MS has been more willing to play ball with them than Sony. EA Access is a prime example. There is no reason it shouldn't be on PS4 but it would provide some unwanted competition for Sony's own services so Sony has blocked it and is hiding behind the ridiculous 'value' argument which is laughable because PS Now is one of the worst values on the market.

Cause Fifa itself isn't secretly a remaster year after year.

You can't remaster your yearly release games EA

I don't mind remasters if there is a good reason for remastering it - for Sony, I think it was a good idea for The Last of Us and Uncharted to be remastered. I'm an Xbox 360 owner and a key selling point of the PS4 was that I hadn't played TLOU but knew I ought.

That said, I like backward compatibility and I think it it does help convince existing consumers not to jump ships. I used it on my Wii to play Gamecube games and I would use it on PS4 if it was available.

@Totaldude911 I still have my PS3

Well FIFA on the PS Vita was a remaster a bad 1 that was it FIFA 11 with updated rosters till 2015. And when you really updated the you dropped the PS Vita........

@Flaming_Kaiser Good idea, it'd just be much more convenient if we didn't have to have them both hooked up all the time.