Well yeah, like I said it's too risky. But then at least you have either new IPs like Mass Effect, Dead Space, L. A. Noire. Two of which already spawned sequels, but at least they had the advertising campaign behind the first games to make the sales.
It's not even entirely the developers' fault for making these sequels and reboots though. Everyone wants their favorite series continued, but in this case:
The difference here is that nobody have given a sh
it about Tomb Raider since the mid-90's.