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setsunatenshi on 26 August 2017
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Cerebralbore101 said:
setsunatenshi said:

Are you disputing that hardware given enough time and use WILL fail? Of course my personal circumstances are anectodal, but it conveys the exact point we are debating. When the hardware dies, i still own my games and I have every right to play it anywhere I want.

 

The other assertions you made are also incorrect and several other people pointed them out as well so I'll refrain from repeating them.

 

Dispite you personal opinions on this subject, the fact is emulation exists and thankfully will always exist.

 

100 years from now, today's games should still live on thanks to it.

There are five different Mom'n Pop game shops in my city. They sell everything from Atari to PS4. There are shops like this all across the world.If hardware failed as quickly as you thought they would all be out of bussiness by now. Yes in 60 year's time there will be very few working systems, but not absolutely no working systems. The Mona Lisa survived hundreds of years. Original game carts and disks should be just fine. Not to mention the code for most games hasn't been lost. You won't need an emulator to grab the original code off the net, and 3D print a PS1 in 2074. Hell, by then I'm sure you would be able to just insert a disk or cart into a device and extract all the code from there no problem. 

It shows you're clearly above using anecdotal evidence to support your opinion.

I suspect you haven't really seen much of the world to think Ataris are being sold in local shops lol.

Game consoles die, cartridges die, even optical media dies. The TVs that can even support the old RGB format die as well. All of these have a specific lifespan no matter how much you try to deny it, it's just reality. The only way to conserve the games history and make sure it survives whatever may happen in the future, is in digital form. And the only way to have those games be playable will be with emulation, period. 

Also, unlike paintings, where they are unique and you are meant to just look at them, games are meant to be played and can be easily distributed online.

For the last time, emulation is used by the hardware manufacturers in order to keep those legacy games playable. Even they realised they should simply embrace it and profit from it, rather than fighting it and trying to ban it outright.