Not really, emulation is mainly for past gen consoles, and less so for the current ones since they aren't very good yet

Well, the article is 18 months old and the gaming industry still lives... so probably not.

Emulation isn't doing a thing to the industry and if it is, it simply means the rightsholders are simply mismanaging their intellectual properties. If a rightsholder cares about distribution of their old games, they will take the games down if possible. If anything, emulation keeps stuff alive because it spreads knowledge about old titles (and thus makes it easier to capitalize on their names using new games).

This is exactly how I see it.

stupid opinion piece... emulation is probably the only real way old games will ever remain playable for future generations. what kind of lost revenue is being had exactly by emulation?

i have full collections of games from the 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit eras taking terabytes of space in one of my hard drives. sure every now and then I might feel like playing 1 or 2 of those games just for nostalgia's sake, but most importantly, I want to be sure that no matter what happens in the future, if I or any of my (possible) kids will want to know what it was like back then, I have access to most if not all legacy games without having to buy a new house to store original hardware and software that sooner or later will stop working anyway.

does that stop me from spending probably much more money in gaming per year than 99% of the population? hell no

Why are 2nd hand sales irrelevant, why does it suddenly matter whether the original IP holder gets any money? With books and movies, the author, actors, director can be long dead and it's still piracy! Why is it different for games, that's what the article is about.

Movies aren't availale for sale in their original form either. I can't buy 35mm reels for one, nor first release VHS or Laserdisc versions, while many modern movies have limited runs or never even get published over here. So does that make it OK to pirate them? What else should you do? Actually I watched some movies I really wanted to see but aren't available here, on You Tube. For example the TV upload from Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo. That still doesn't make it right.

Anyway, your stance is that if you can't easily buy it in the shop, go ahead and pirate it. That sounds a lot like entitlement. It's the same with tv shows nowadays. It aired somewhere in the world so now it's public domain, that's simply not the case.

If trade in old games picks up, the chance of actual carefully restored re-releases goes up, plus people will be more careful with the old stuff. We might see more things like the NES classic appearing, and more support for them. It's not hurting new games, it is hurting the chances of official emulation hardware and the value of collecting games.

But yeah, with books and movies, you wait for a rerelease, or find a second hand copy. Why are games different. Yet I do realize it has a positive aspect on the industry too. From the few movies I've pirated, I went on to buy them on blu-ray once released here. I'm still waiting for Stalker to release on blu-ray over here. (At least games don't suffer from region codes anymore) It's not any easier to get old movies. The director and original writer are long dead, still not ok to pirate it!

Prepare to be disappointed (with kids). I have plenty old games too, yet they are far more interested to play with old hardware instead of trying old games on new systems. And even that is very limited. Shiny new games, especially those seen on you tube, is what they want. Same with movies. I have well over a 1000 movies on dvd and blu-ray, spanning 6 decades, plenty of fantasy and cartoons, and all they want to watch is the same few modern ones over and over!

The title is clickbait, it's not killing anything. The questions in the article are legitimate though, why are games treated differently. Why does the movie archive https://archive.org/details/moviesandfilms have to bother with copyrights and not any game archives?

Pretty much every argument against emultaion is closed with this.

I mean I get the movie analogy, the issue is I can get ever major hollywood movie that was released in the last 100 years easily on any major streaming services. Games, not so much. This is yet again just another perk of the medium. Killing the gaming industry? The title is screaming attention :))

"With books and movies, the author, actors, director can be long dead and it's still piracy! Why is it different for games, that's what the article is about."
But it's not different at all. If the movie or book or game is still being sold by a legal successor of the creator, they are still getting the money they earned.
If it's not available to buy they wouldn't get anything.
It's not about what's right. It's well known that it still IS piracy and I don't see anyone disputing this. But it's at least morally justifiable and that's what especially emulation is about.

As someone who's long collected for old systems I really have not seen the effects of this... prices have gotten so absurd that even fairly common old games for many (if not most) retro systems frequently cost equal to or more than new modern games. Some systems, like the turbografx 16, are so expensive that it simply isn't worth it for anyone outside of determined collectors.

In reality, the video game industry is larger and healthier than it has ever been. I haven't seen many negative effects of emulating; if anything, it's lead to an increased interest in older games and consoles among people who previously didn't even realize they existed.