It would seem it's actively in their interests to have the most of their customers forget. First, these companies do serve very derivative content, that wouldn't be remotely interesting when compared to their inspirations. The comparison in many case is so unfair that it shed lights on the incompetence of the team. For some example, there was the 'definitive edition' of the PS2 era GTA games, if you go on Steam you can't find the originals. You can buy the definitive edition that stands at a mighty 0.6 user score on Metacritic though. For movies I'm not sure what would illustrate best but when the Ghostbusters reboot movie came out, it seems they made an effort not to acknowledge the originals. And when the big toys line-up came up after the reboot's disaster of a reception, they did as if it didn't exist and went all for the nostalgia.