It's time for the second edition of Big Thoughts with Big Ma(g)ma.
With nostalgia always being a powerful driving force and with us living in an era where it's pretty easy to find anything from the past, I wonder if we'll be living in an era of like constant revivals of past stuff. We've already been seeing like throwbacks to 80s and 90s and I just wonder how much this sort of stuff will accelerate. Not only that but there will also be people whose childhoods will coincidence with these like 80s and 90s revivals which is pretty crazy. Growing up in this current era and its fixation with past eras. Will our obsession with the past continue or will we eventually break into something different?
Honestly, media that brings back the past isn't incompatible with media that tries something new or evolves its mediums. I mean, look at the gaming world right now. On the one hand, you could say Nintendo is obsessed with nostalgia, with every new game dripping with references to previous installments in the series and marketing galore focused on the old days and bringing back familiar faces and elements. Mario has certainly been bringing back every enemy, boss and character seen in the series for one thing.
(like the Koopalings, Boom Boom, Reznor, power ups like the Tanooki Suit and Racoon Leaf, Chargin' Chucks, the Angry Sun, Pauline, the Superball Flower etc).
Yet it still tries new things. Super Mario Odyssey is filled with new characters and ideas.
So the old and new can coexist.
Still, maybe you wanted completely new and original, not continuations of existing franchises (though the idea of old franchises continuing forever has basically been a thing for as long as art has existed).
In that case, that still happened. We've still got ARMS and Splatoon from Nintendo. And loads of other new franchises from other companies big and small. What point do you want examples for? Gravity Falls or Steven Universe or what not not? Five Nights at Freddy's? Minecraft? Maybe something like A Hat in Time?
We'll always see revivals, that's been a part of fiction forever. But we'll see new stuff that blows up and becomes its own world changing franchise with millions of fans too, just like we always have.