I think people blow this out of proportion. Games from the 7th gen can't run on current consoles. If companies remaster the more popular titles, they make it so the games will be available for years to come. Basically, if the games now run on the x86 architecture, it means it will most likely run on future consoles as well since it's highly unlikely that Sony and Microsoft will go back to a PPC architecture.
Which means that it is quite possible that future consoles will be more akin to steam in which the games you have purchased carry on from one console to an other, and it also means that those games remain purchasable for everyone, with only the newer games requiring you to upgrade the newer consoles to make them run.
At least, that's the way I envision the future of consoles.
Even if that's not the case, making older games available to newcomers, or to people who sold their older system can't be a bad thing. A choice is always better than no choice.
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