Steam sales, sales bin and used games is a bigger problem when it comes to money and sustainability.

It doesn't hurts the gaming industry. Those games are 200 years old and people who like video game, the yonger people also, would not be able to play those games.

Companies don't make those games avaliable so even who want to support the company is unable to do that.

Emulation is preserving video games more than anything else. Without it many gems of the past would be lost forever.

No, emulation is not killing the industry. People who emulate games, share music or videos, are also some of the biggest consumers of bought media. Makin mg old games available through emulation only entices gamers to keep on gaming and buy new games.

I've always been a big fan of emulation as a way of getting to play super rare games, Japanese titles never released here or really old games that I never experienced. To I still buy games? Well I own north of 250 titles on 360, 200+ titles on X1, several old consoles with hundreds of physical copies.

No, but I don't support it or the pirates who utilize it.

Why would anyone be against emulation, not every game is gonna end up as an over-priced downloadable tittle and people shouldn't be forced to pay high amounts for rare games knowing that 0 of their money is going to the devs and doesn't support the industry in any way.

I don' think it has an impact. Basically, right now, emulation only works 100% out of the box until 16-bit. Consoles of latter gens usually need some fussing (mainly 5th and 6th), while 7th gen is, at best, in a pre-alpha state. So it really doesn't impact platforms that are still being sold or having games available on stores.

Of course, it probably has an impact on these retro copies of games sold on PS Store, Google Play, Xbox Live, etc. But they are just ridiculous cheap ports and are usually also sold pretty cheap. So I wouldn't say that anyone is losing its mind with this.

It helps to keep the memory of gaming alive. Imagine how many amazing games modern people would be denied without it. I know it's not exactly "legal", but saying that it is "killing" the game industry is completely ridiculous and a massive overreaction.