But the fundamental question is: why waste resources on a remake when you can just make a completely new game? <snip>
I mean, the fact that many companies already make remakes implies they're financially successful. Most often the same studios are remaking their own games ....
This is the important point about remakes. In almost all instances, and especially in the cases of the very prominent remakes that people talk about, it is the same original developer doing the remake. And for the original developer to do it, it makes some sense. But not for someone entirely unrelated to the original games.
