Cartridges or optical discs?

[VGPolyglot]

Pemalite said:

VGPolyglot said:

I've heard of disc rot, I've just never seen any of my games do that. In any case, as I've mentioned I've had problems with my Master System, but along with that I've also had problems with N64 and NES games recognizing the cartridge. So, it's only a matter of time for cartridge-based games as well, much like everything else.

Indeed. All things man-made are prone to fail eventually.

But if something is mechanical, due to the fact there are moving parts... They do tend to have more points of failure.

Which is why I'm afraid of my game collection I have hundreds of games, yet sometimes wonder if it was even worth getting them, because they're eventually going to stop working. I just don't know when.