But all this stuff with remakes and remasters has always existed. So it is not even a new trend. So it does not even have to become a new trend. After all, it already is one.
Just two examples:
Shadow of the Colossus:
PS2: 2005/2006
PS3 Remaster: 2011
PS4 Remake: 2018
PS2: Ratchet & Clank 1: 2002
PS2: Ratchet & Clank 2: 2003
PS2: Ratchet & Clank 3: 2004
PS3: The Ratchet & Clank Trilogy: 2012
PS4: Ratchet & Clank Remake (only R&C 1): 2016
Well, with The Last of Us, we have ve now had the remastered version a year after release. And if you like, the remastered version was remastered again when the PS4 PRO update came. (2013 - 2014 - 2016)
But the time gap between the original releases in 2013 and 2014 (8/9 years) are not even unusual time gaps compared to other remasters/remakes. Demon's Souls is just another example. (2009/2010 vs. 2020). This clearly shows that remasters/remakes are neither something new nor something unusual after this period of time.
In the case of The Last of Us, I simply believe that the game is still much more present in people's minds. There are certainly many reasons for this. On the one hand, the sequel only came out in 2020, which is why many people only played the game again then. On the other hand, TLOU was just so good that it was talked about intensively again and again. And the internet has also changed over time. People are much more involved with certain games. Be it through subreddits, Discord, YouTube or other social networks. These were things that were nowhere near as intense 10+ years ago.
Slow down, too much fucking logic in this post for many.
My favorite is "we got a remaster on PS4"
"We got a remaster of SoTC on PS3 and a remake on PS4"
"but thats was a PS2 game doe"
"This is a PS3 game to PS5 doez...."
(finds goalpost to cry over)
I've never seen some fucking standard where it needs to be decades to remake a fucking game, so folks might want to cry harder when they see those PS3 games gets remade. The Last Of Us 1 coming out in 2013 doesn't fucking mean it wasn't using 2006 technology folks, I don't know where this shit comes from with this gatekeeping crap of pretending it NEEDS to be 50 years before a remake as to not hurt their fangirl feelings or something. I don't buy this is being talked about because the standard of remakes was 20 years or some shit lol As if we NEVER got a remake before this lol
Even publishers like Capcom who might as well wrote the book on remakes lol From the original in 1996 to the remake in 2002, this is a difference of 6 years, from 1 generation to the next, you can't find 1 fucking article during the year of that games reveal to release talking about some stupid fanboy shit of "tooooo sooooonz" "ohhhh noez" nothing like that was ever said regarding that by the majority and I can't find one publication that made those types of comments. So I simply don't buy that anyone gives a shit from 9 years to 10 or even 13 years as it sounding like literally gatekeeping fanboys would argue "too soonz" regardless.
From 1 system to the next is whats important, this idea that the GAME came out in 2013 and THIS game is coming out in 2022 imho is irrelevant, the relevancy here is the fucking PS3 came out in 2006, PS5 came out in 2020. The hardware the game was made from is the gap here folks.
So if Capcom waits until 2006 to put out RE1 remake on Gamecube, was some huge difference suppose to happen here? The fuck? lol Development might help with more time, it won't move tech and hardware to some massive degree for folks to be pretending a PS3 game being remade on PS5 is um "too soon".
I question why that is being stated about this game, yet disregarded about majority of remakes. Dead Space remake is literally from PS3 to PS5 lol Anything from PS3 to PS5 imho, is fair game and makes sense for a remake.
it's not overpriced, it's just priced. 
