Well, basically I'm personally not a huge fan of emulating newer consoles (although I don't judge people who do emulate them). I prefer buying games for newer consoles and when they are no longer a major part of the industry (like genesis, saturn or atari 2600) I like to emulate to get access to a huge digital library.
Emulation is awesome. I know it's illegal to create roms from games and share them, but I don't think it should be. I look at it the same way as if I would record a program on an old VCR and share that with friends: if you do it without a profit motive, it should be up to you what you do with a product you own.
I do hope, however, that even if people emulate consoles, they will still buy many games. I personally own 13 games for my Switch, 300+ games on my X1 so I am a pretty big consumer of gaming in general.
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