New data shows that physical software dollar sales dipped to an all-time July low of $85 million in the US — the worst total since tracking began in 1995.
Physical media that exists for games doesn’t last so if it’s not constantly produced it will just decay in a few years.
Legislation should allow game archiving (pirating) and archivists should work to find a way to best keep the games. If thats physically somehow, sure. But I doubt it. Games are digital.
There’s basically no serious longterm digital data archiving that is kept in discrete physical media.
Also, individual ownership is not the right way to solve this. These things should be publicly available for all, not kept private by a few people.
Right… the lack of making informed consumer decisions is the cause of the rise of fascism. Got it.
And I mean physical games will just stop being made, so good luck keeping ownership of those.
I think the solution is to pirate, and start stockpiling memory.
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Physical media that exists for games doesn’t last so if it’s not constantly produced it will just decay in a few years.
Legislation should allow game archiving (pirating) and archivists should work to find a way to best keep the games. If thats physically somehow, sure. But I doubt it. Games are digital.
There’s basically no serious longterm digital data archiving that is kept in discrete physical media.
Also, individual ownership is not the right way to solve this. These things should be publicly available for all, not kept private by a few people.
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