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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FAST6191" data-source="post: 8669395" data-attributes="member: 32303">I find there are four types of late stage release1) Things that devs have been working on and don't fancy punting to the successor system, or have a build basically done already so it is whatever effort required to get things pressed and ship it. I will include late stage region dupes in this.2) Film/tv show/comic book cash in games that they still reckon there is a big enough install base to be worth it for. These things seem to have died off though and few mourned their passing.3) Sports games popular in a given region. So usually football or American football in much of the world and the US respectively. 4) Things like we see on the dreamcast and whatnot where some fans essentially make a piece of homebrew and release it as a commercial effort.All can yield some surprisingly quality efforts -- For 1) you obviously have devs that have got to know the system over the last however many years and are usually pretty good at getting all they can from it.For 2) you can find the small teams are basically given free reign and the results (especially with the "we know this system" thing can be surprisingly good; I frequently bring up the GBA Pirates of the Caribbean game, but you can also look at some of the rarer and more expensive games for older systems and quite often you find such titles and a note of their surprisingly high quality. That said just as many are clueless (grand)parent fodder.On 3) then sports games are never good as far as I am concerned but if you do like such things then again quality coders doing quality work, even more so when the games have arguably had the same codebase for several years at this point and thus it is pretty polished and refined.4) obviously has devs up to speed with current dev practices and gameplay styles (UI design has moved on since any console that is not current and still has a long way to go, understanding of game theory has moved on but has even further to go) all doing their own thing with their own modern tools on their own time as it were (no particular deadlines other than those they set themselves).Some combo of the lot is also seen if the platform in question enjoys a second life in another country -- South America has its own thing going on a lot of the time (see the story of the Genesis/Megadrive there, especially Brazil), Eastern Europe or one of the non multi5 countries occasional gloms onto something and keeps it going for a few more years, South Korea and Thailand have done some things in the past, China not so much other than a bit of ique stuff, I am expecting India to do something at some point (though it might be in mobile phones), the middle east might be having something happen (they certainly enjoy a vibrant ROM hacking scene) and there is enough wealth in Africa these days that you get some similarities with the first two locations on this list as they were 20 years ago.</blockquote>

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