| IcaroRibeiro said: Buying second hand is literally the opposite of preservation. It means someone needs to given up their copy to other people to get the copy. With time those copies will suffer malfunction and will literally dissappear. Worse, being tied to specific hardware to will be unplayable regardless of how many time the copies endure Preservation = How the game can be available for posteriority Physical needs the game, album or movie to be extremely popular to be truly "preserved" i.e. have enough printing to exist in second hand market for decades. There are countless movies and albums I was only able to listen and watch thanks to digital. I think you misunderstood what I meant about losing my DS and PS2 libraries. The physical copies still exists, but they are literally unplayable because there is no functional hardware to play them. I can only play some PS2 games that I have bought again on Switch or PS4. Again, digitally |
My local store has plenty DS and PS2's for sale. Heck you can find them at garage sales. It's not rare hardware, I have a couple PS2's still around the house and they still work fine. And doesn't 3DS play DS titles as well?
Preservation is conserving the original work, not some copy. I can download a picture of the Mona Lisa, does that mean I'm preserving it?
There are plenty real collectors around to preserve the real deal. Digital copies of popular games is not preservation. It's up to the developer to preserve the source code though, as well as the schematics for the hardware. You can't write an emulator if the details about the original hardware are lost...
