{"id":225499,"date":"2025-11-20T01:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/90-of-gamers-have-played-a-remake-or-remaster-finds-new-report"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:31:26","slug":"90-of-gamers-have-played-a-remake-or-remaster-finds-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/90-of-gamers-have-played-a-remake-or-remaster-finds-new-report","title":{"rendered":"90% of Gamers Have Played a Remake or Remaster, Finds New Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/90-of-gamers-have-played-a-remake-or-remaster-finds-new-report.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to MTM, many respondents said that they find remakes and remasters \u201chelp them reconnect with positive, comforting feelings and memories that they had when they first played the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the firm noted that others raised concerns about studios \u201ctaking an easy, repetitive route to market\u201d and that these remakes come at the cost of \u201csacrificing innovative, new experiences that could redefine the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur report shows that there is a strong appeal for remakes and remasters, but it\u2019s a tight balancing act for studios to get right,\u201d said Martin Bradley, head of gaming at MTM.\u201d Many of these games are far out-selling their original release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to MTM, many respondents said that they find remakes and remasters \u201chelp them reconnect with positive, comforting feelings and memories that they had when they first played the game.\u201d However, the firm noted that others raised concerns about studios \u201ctaking an easy, repetitive route to market\u201d and that these remakes come at the cost [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}