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KylieDog said:


You assume the file will still be hosted for you to download.

There are a lot of assumptions when buying stuff off XBL or PSN.

If you really wanted to err on the safe side, consider everything you buy to be a write off once the platform is no longer being supported, meaning your only "copies" will be whatever you have installed on any consoles before support is dropped.

There's no way to make non hardware locked back ups on the PS3 either. PSN back ups (or just PS3 back ups in general) are tied to specific consoles, making them worthless if anything happens to the orginal console on which they were installed.

XBL allows the copying/transferring of XBL games although the license remains tied to the original gamer tag on which they were purchased.

Of course if any of these games aren't compatible with future consoles, it doesn't really matter either way if they'll be available on servers "for all infinity" or not, which is of course a pretty silly assumption.