GKC may last longer than physical or digital.

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Cerebralbore101 said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

The issue with gaming preservation in consoles is not servers, not the media. It's the consoles themselves

Once your console stop working you lose your collection, period

Backwards compatibility stends the life of a library, but there is a cap

Emulation is the only way to keep games alive. DRM free digital games is the way

You would be blown away at the lengths people in the retro gaming hobby go to keep older consoles alive. We shouldn't have working PS3s in 2040 yet we will because mad scientists reball and liquid cool PS3 fats.

Just for comparison, I still have a OG Gameboy, a SNES and a 486DX-40 PC in working condition at home, plus an old CRT TV to connect the old consoles to. I even still have 2 Game& Watch, still running like new.

Did I mention that the  Nintendo consoles had no maintenance done whatsoever on them? All they did was yellow quite a bit (my parents were heavy smokers), but still work like new otherwise.