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Remember that PlayStation 4 game you really enjoyed a few years ago? Well, you might be able to buy it again soon!

Just a month after releasing a full remake of the less than 10 year old The last of us, PlayStation is reportedly working on it again. The game blog MP1e reported over the weekend that a remake or 2017 remaster Horizon Zero Dawn is in the making for Playstation5. If true, this would come less than six years after the original game graced the PS4 and less than a year after the sequel Horizon Forbidden West issued.

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To be clear, the report doesn’t say definitively whether this would be a full-blown remake that Sony would sell for $70, as The Last of Us Part I. It reportedly includes improved lighting and new character models that match the quality of those found in Forbidden Westbut other than that we don’t know much.

But the internet will never stop using the internet. As such, people had thoughts about this news when it came out.

hey remember Bloodborne?

People especially want to know why PlayStation would do this when many older games from PlayStation’s past remain untouched. Exclusive to the PlayStation 3 generation such as Resistance: Fall of Man and the first two Notorious games are a few prominent examples of games that Sony has seemingly forgotten about.

Heck, you can even go back to the PS1 and PS2 days to find things like Sly Cooper and Jak & Daxter that might deserve some remake love.

But one game was mostly in the online fracas after the Horizon rumors. It is arguably the best PS4 game. Some even call it the very best game in a series with the incredible Elden Ringwhich for many people was the game of the year in 2022.

People love this game so much and it still never received an update for PS5.

You guessed it: it is Bloodborne.

Let’s ignore the irony of a 2017 game remake by asking for a 2015 game remake. They’re both quite recent – we’re not here to measure contradictions.

It is a very valid point that Horizon has already got a patch to look and work better on PS5, while Bloodborne and many other classics of PlayStation history have been ignored.

It’s just one example, but it underscores the point nicely: PlayStation is in a bit of a weird place right now, and recreating recent games may not win hearts and minds.

Having bad flashbacks

Gamers of a certain age may remember the heyday of 2006 when Sony launched the PlayStation 3 online with a lot of ridicule and ridicule. It looked like a George Foreman grill and cost famously at launch”599 US dollars.” Only one console generation after the PS2 became the best-selling console of all timeSony thought it would get away with selling an overpriced console that didn’t contain many enticing exclusive games to begin with.

Sounds familiar? The PS5 isn’t $600, but $500 is nothing to sneeze at in this economy. There have been some notable exclusives such as Return and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apartbut other titles like Forbidden West and the coming God of War: Ragnarok are also available on PS4. There’s just a general feeling in my gaming circles that the PS5 hasn’t done enough to justify the high entry prices yet. And recreating games that already look and play great on a PS5 doesn’t get people excited.

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To be clear, the PS5 is doing just fine. By June, it had sold more than 21 million units worldwide, although it has been very hard to find since its launch in November 2020. Heck, even the PS3 is liquidated narrowly outselling the Xbox 360 at the end of its life. I definitely don’t think this trend of remaking recent games is going to be downfall for the PlayStation brand or anything, but it’s a bummer. It just feels like a way to get something out the door as COVID continues to cause game delays in the industry.

unless it is Bloodborne. All is forgiven once Sony makes it again.