I guess this is okay, but I feel as though publishers are intentionally trying to avoid fostering new IPs because they can't own it outright if it's from an external company, and their internal dev houses can only come up with so much.

On reading this, I pictured a giant roulette wheel with the following sector labels: HD conversion, sequel, spiritual successor, noscon, retcon, MMO conversion, FPS conversion, third-person action-adventure conversion, isometric hack-and-slash RPG conversion, Rogue-like conversion, MMMORARGVG.