It mostly comes from the exhaustion of video game companies making big announcements and then pretending for years they never happened.

Be it Cyberpunk 2077 (that didn’t even have the actual concept when they originally planned to release the game), The Witcher IV (remember we’re promised that?), or, like, you know, The Elder Scrolls VI from that same genre (announced almost a decade ago).

Companies attract attention with big announcements, and then just take the easy path, making remakes of remakes of remakes, occasionally bringing in a little bit of content into their older titles.

It wouldn’t be problematic with the old games if they actually tried to make the new ones for once.