Wiki-editors - What, if any, past-gen to current-gen remasters/re-releases warrant their own wiki pages?

Games that are a separate $60 purchase from the base game (ports not included) should count as a different game. I would even include TLOU Remaster in that. It comes with the DLC and has specifically upgraded visuals.. I know that seems a little weak but I would rather draw a hard line in the sand than have to weigh everything game and say "Does this enough new content, yes/no?"

Personally I don't think they require their own page. Info about the re-release could be added to the original games page. That's what aliases, platforms, and release dates are for.

I mean I only occasionally add old games to the wiki, which had re-releases too. They don't have separate pages for all of them, and back in the day games released on separate platforms could be completely different games. Aladdin on SNES is not the same as Aladdin on Genesis for example. Do those have separate pages, too? Should they? (I don't think so).

We already have several remaster pages. I feel that's not necessary. If all you want is to add a new name that people might look for a specific game, because it was re-released with a new name (like Kingdom Heart HD Remix for example), I would think that's the point of adding an alias.

I don't see the point in constantly adding a new page just because a game got released again on a new generation of consoles. Most of the time it's the same game. I mean, again, if we're not making different pages for old games released on multiple platforms that legitimately are different than I don't see the difference here when it comes to re-release/remasters for a newer generation of consoles.

That's just my opinion, though.

If Final Fantasy XII International Job Zodiac System doesn't have it's own page then it seems that no amount of new modes or features warrants a new page. Completely changing the battle system, making the summons playable, adding a mode where your party is level 99, adding a mode where your party is level 1, adding new hunts and quests, and yet it doesn't get it's own page.

Compared to that adding first person view in GTAV is nothing, because it's the same game from a different perspective. FFXII IJZS is a different game entirely.

New pages only for remakes, which constitute different games.

I'm not a wiki editor but I wanted to chime in that having seperate pages for substantial updates is from my perspective a better way of handling things for readers. It's purely a search function preference to look up the updated versions faster/better if they have a seperate page. I also imagine editors are more likely to list the updates to the game more indepth if there is a new page to create and edit.

I have made my feeling on this subject known on more than one occasion, but I think as long as the game is a separate release and it was updated in some way it should get a page. If the game is just a straight port then it should not. Of course I also think handheld versions of games that play totally differently should have their own page as well. I feel like eventually none of the releases get as good a write up as they could on their own page.

@brendan: that seems really inefficient. Ideally, the DLC will already be mentioned in the original game page. It makes more sense to add a small paragraph explaining (in this very particular case) the slight differences between the games rather than creating two separate game pages.

Unless the core games are drastically different like dead rising, then I think editors should aim to reduce the number of different game pages.

A version is a version. "Rerelease" is not a class in my mind.

1st Rule Is: only a version with significant differences gets its own page. The Dreamcast version of Resident Evil 3 doesn't need its own page. I think @mosespippy, that an argument could be made that that version of FFXII should have a different page.

What's "significant" is admittedly a gray line. There are probably many cases on GB of games needing separate pages and not separate pages. It's a tricky thing to judge sometimes.

I appreciate the sentiment behind GTAV's 1st person "changing the game" but I feel personally that's overstating the case. It also portrays it as a binary feature that you turn on/off, when in fact the game encourages a blend of camera perspectives.