archer9234 said:
spemanig said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Yep it's great still being able to play older consoles rather than them just being a useless waste of space, long may it continue!
It wasn't too long ago that someone on here recommended Pokemon Snap to me and thanks to the used game market I was able to get a copy for my N64 even today 
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In 20 years when people go back and play the PS4/XBO/Wii U, all those games will still be available on the market place, and for dirt cheap. Even now, I still can, and do, buy games from the PS3 digitally. There are games who's prices are preserved because of this. I plan on buying Peace Walker on PS3 digitally. I got Metroid Prime Trilogy, a game that used to run for like $200 physically, for $10 on the eshop. And that's all without having to scour game stores and ebay hoping someone has the game you want on the console you want in the condition you want for the price you want. You'll just buy the old system, look up the market place, and buy those games.
In a digital marketplace where there are no physical games, game preservation becomes easier and more streamlined, not more difficult.
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At the cost of buying said games again and again. Or are you gonna say those servers will still connect to the old consoles. Rather than they get disconnected, and then they have to be ported again and again to the futurue consoles. And we have to keep rebuying them. Or having a transfer fee, of some kind. Or a monthly fee, if it's streamed. Is that really better than just maintaing your stuff? For the company, yeah sure. Not me personally.
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this is precisely the problem with this system that spemanig is advocating. We have to give up our power to own something forever and put WAY too much trust in the developer to keep these games available.
Also, what happens when a company takes a shit and they shut down servers, and the games are lost forever?
