This keeps coming up but it seems kinda dumb. I can’t just go buy a new 80’s Honda civic because I don’t know how to fix mine, but I could probably repair old consoles if I had the parts. The weirder part is how the games industry can continually port or remaster old games and expect a profit but it doesn’t work that way for most of anything else. I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault if things don’t make it to the future. Games aren’t books and you can’t copy them in the same ways. Console makers can’t even write good emulators for their own hardware. I’m fine with bootleg backups as long as the IP holders can be forced to fuck off from stuff they were just going to dump in the abyss anyways.
My kinda disjointed 2¢ anyways…
This keeps coming up but it seems kinda dumb. I can’t just go buy a new 80’s Honda civic because I don’t know how to fix mine, but I could probably repair old consoles if I had the parts. The weirder part is how the games industry can continually port or remaster old games and expect a profit but it doesn’t work that way for most of anything else. I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault if things don’t make it to the future. Games aren’t books and you can’t copy them in the same ways. Console makers can’t even write good emulators for their own hardware. I’m fine with bootleg backups as long as the IP holders can be forced to fuck off from stuff they were just going to dump in the abyss anyways. My kinda disjointed 2¢ anyways…