tmfan89 wrote on 02/17/18 at 12:50:21:
A TM2 HD remaster is the only hope for a new TM game. TM2 was the best selling game of the series, PS1 remakes are popular and making money, and a TM2 remake is a fairly cheap project so you could sell 1 million copies at a modest price point and have it be profitable.
You could make a 15-20$ HD remake with online capabilities and I think you sell enough to make it profitable. Maybe if a TM2 remake sells well Sony dips their toe back into the series but banking on the nostalgia of a past game is the franchises only hope right now.
A new game is too risky for Sony but banking on an old successful game that could be done affordably and is much less of a risk. Do I think it will happen? I put the chances at 40%. How many more PS1 remasters could they do? And how many other PS1 games would be ahead of TM2?
But positively, Sony doesn't have that many PS1 first party games as popular as TM2. Crash they already did and Medievil is in the pipeline. TM2 is one of the most popular Sony first party games from that era. So I think it possible but not that likely.
If Sony is going in the direction of remastering a classic TM game I don't think they should limit it to TM2 alone. The Crash Bandicoot remaster succeeds not only in the nostalgic level, but in being 3 games in 1. Would you rather buy say, a 20 dollar TM2 remaster, or buy a 40 dollar remaster with 3 remastered TM titles? I think a collection would work best but then you have to ask yourself what are the other games... me personally I think I would go with TM1, TM2 (with a TM2 PC style multiplayer), and TM Black Online (since the story version is already available on PSN). A multiplayer-centric collection would be amazing... TM1 would be something that could appeal to fans of 1 vs 1 and fighting games who find TM2/Black's online too chaotic.
I also think a remastered version of TM Small Brawl would be pretty cool. The game's biggest flaw was graphics, so technically that game could benefit the most from being redone.
Then there's TM3&4. I don't think there is enough demand in those being remastered. They weren't even ps1 classics for PS3, but another potential strategy for Sony is to release a full priced 50-60 dollar game that had all 5 PS1 Twisted Metal games. They could also do the opposite and focus on TM Black, Head-On, and TM 2012 getting the remastered treatment and release that as a full priced game, but eh, that would be dumb.
There's a lot of ways they can go with a remaster but to me a multiplayer-centric collection with TM1, TM2, and TMBO would be the smartest move... it'd attract new fans to the series.