Mandalore76 said:
haxxiy said:
That's anecdotal evidence. What you are reporting is the exception, not the rule. Virtually all recorded CDs, DVDs, magnetic tapes, and cassettes will be gone after 40+ years since their average lifespan is just a fraction of that. Even the ROM modules inside older cartridges will have a hard time lasting that long because even though they are hardware encoded and can't be electronically changed, the transistors themselves can and will eventually fail, no matter how much care you put into it. Most PS1 disks are rotting already. In 15 - 20 years, a lot of Switch cartridges will no longer be functional. And so on. |
You really believe Switch cartridges will no longer be functional in less than 2 decades? When it is still easy to find working copies of all of these games?: Nintendo DS cartridge (15 years old):  Nintendo 64 cartridge (25 years old):  NES cartridge (35 years old):  Colecovision Digital Data Pack (37 years old):  ColecoVision Cartridge (39 years old):  |
No way that copy of Zelda is functioning. Save battery has to be long dead.
Also, first time I ever have seen what a colecovision cartridge looks like.
