| IcaroRibeiro said: Yes, digital is the only way to preserve games |
The idea that "digital is the only way to preserve games" is just an appeal to the lowest common denominator. Most people don't want to collect or bother with original hardware. Most people don't know anything about the hobby and make entirely wrong assumptions. For example: Many people assume that Famicom disk system games don't work, based on how fragile floppy discs in office areas were. After all those floppy discs all failed in offices decades ago. Yet the FDS games are still readable because Nintendo used better materials. There's countless examples like this where real world experience in the hobby trumps internet assumptions. Name a system that sold over 5 million units and I can help you build a good collection of 50 titles for less than what they sold for at original retail. NES, Genesis, and SNES are all cheap if you know what games to look for.
Platform-locked stores are terrible and I absolutely agree that if you buy a game you should have access to it forever as long as your hardware works. This is why I buy physical though. All my DS games still work. I can't buy those games from Nintendo's online store and I no longer have my original DS. If I had bought them digitally they would all be gone now.
