I’ve noticed a ton of people jumping into remakes and remasters lately, and it’s clearly bringing in a lot of money for the companies making them. From what I’ve seen, full-on remakes – where they basically rebuild the game from the ground up – seem to be a little more popular than just remasters, which mostly polish up the graphics and stuff.
So, I was reading this report from Ampere Analysis, and they looked at a bunch of game re-releases – like remakes and remasters – between January 2024 and September 2025. They found that 42 of these games got played by a whopping 72.4 million people on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam! And get this, players spent around $1.4 billion on buying those games and anything extra inside them. It’s pretty crazy how popular these older games are still proving to be!
Generally, remakes generated 2.2 times more consumer spending than remasters. For example, although games like Gears of War: Reloaded had a comparable number of players at their peak compared to the Silent Hill 2 remake and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, those remakes ultimately earned significantly more money from players.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered stands out from the rest. Players spent $180 million on it, and it had 7 million monthly active users – significantly more than any other game remaster or remake analyzed in the study.
This data demonstrates how strong a well-known franchise like The Elder Scrolls can be. While remakes generally led to more spending and activity from players, the research also clarifies the distinction between remasters and remakes – both common approaches used by leading game companies.
Remakes can attract more players and generate higher profits, but they’re expensive and time-consuming because they essentially rebuild a game from scratch. The advantage of a remake is the opportunity to completely update the gameplay to appeal to modern audiences. Remasters, however, are generally simpler updates – they refresh the graphics and assets of an existing game without major changes to how it plays, making them faster and cheaper to produce. But, a remastered game might still feel dated in terms of its gameplay design.
A recent September report revealed that most video game players have experienced remakes or remasters, often without ever having played the original games.
Game releases are increasingly dominated by older titles. Just this year, we’ve already seen remakes and remasters of classics like Metal Gear Solid 3, the original Dragon Quest games, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and several Tomb Raider titles, making it almost guaranteed you’ll find a revisited game among the new releases.
A recent study by Ampere Analytics offers some compelling data, and it makes you wonder how the upcoming remakes of Halo: Combat Evolved and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time would compare.
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2025-11-03 20:10