With videogame budgets ballooning and competition ever intensifying there's a huge amount riding on whether a modern videogame succeeds or fails. As such, publishers are increasingly turning to the safest bets possible, like sequels in proven series or shiny remakes of classic games.
It's the exact strategy that Xbox has said it's falling back on to increase its fortune—recommitting to its big names like Halo, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls etc. Admittedly, that strategy also includes laying off thousands of people and cutting ties with numerous game studios, which thus far has yielded Xbox's worst quarter in years.
