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End of an era? (discuss.online)
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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

that's what i hate the most about this. "retro gaming and second hand" works now because everything was physical back then, and could be preserved. what will the people of the future have of us? nothing but memories of what will then be a digital graveyard. most of it unpreserved, even through piracy, because consoles are getting harder and harder to hack and emulate and companies are getting more and more litigious.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Eh, everything PS3/360 generation and earlier is basically available at perfect emulation, or definitely will be soon because of the existing emulators and their development.

95% of all games from the PS/Xbox generations since then have been on PC from day 1. Almost all of the Xbox first party games have been on PC since then as well. The switch has been emulated perfectly for ages.

This realistically leaves only a handful of Sony first party PS4 and PS5 games left, and the switch 2 which only just came out.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

They'll get to read the plot synopsis on wikipedia