I got over 300 games. How much will I be spending on hard drives to preserve that kinda library? 10TBs ain't gonna cut it. I'm not interested in spending over a thousand dollars to store games across many hard drives to preserve them long term.
First off, you need the same amount of disc space to preserve physical as you do digital.
Second 10TB would fit all 300 of your games. At most you might have to buy 2 of them, which is $200. Not thousands of dollars.
Third you bought physical games, so you don’t have the option of backing up your games, so you have to maintain hardrive space and physical discs forever if you want to keep those games.
If you don't practice what you're talking about you can save the theoretical arguments about what's possible to be done. I have zero issues storing my physical collection. As a game collector I'm telling you physical is better for people who value and want to collect games. It's sad to see these companies kill ownership of games off but they're doing it for their own benefit not the end users benefit.
All of this shyt is “theoretical” don’t see servers shutting down and people losing access to their games like you been claiming here either.
With that said, it’s not theoretical for me. The exact scenario just played out for me. Nintendo was suing the rom sites and taking them down so I took a hardrive I had sitting around and downloaded a bunch of roms and emulators. Now I’ve preserved all those games and will be able to play them at any time I want, without worrying about specific hardware to play them or maintaining physical copies.
And again. YOU DONT OWN THE GAME. You own your right to play it. That does not change based on how you purchase.
I own almost 20 physical movies total and that's for my entire life. Most of them I didn't buy personally. I love Netflix because to me movies and shows are a disposable media. I'm not gonna get in an argument with a physical media collector about why Netflix is better because after I short term consume the media I'm done with it.
Stay on topic
I get the arguments for digital and in some cases it works will but when you think long term and game companies hold the keys to your ability to access the content you purchased it doesn't. When platform DRM determines how you can access that it doesn't unless you're only thinking sort term. For all these people gun-ho about digital console games they aren't thinking what about 20 years later when I want to revisit this or they're clamoring for another remake so they can rebuy a game they already bought.
They hold the keys to your access of physical titles as well. Users have to make steps to preserve both digital and physical.
PlayStation stops selling PS3 and your disc drive goes bad, your games are worthless.
In 20 years is it likely that you will still have a working console, controllers, tv hookups(and a tv with hdmi inputs), discs, and a hardrive containing all the data that is not on your discs?
No
At least have the decency to admit you don't care about that stuff instead of making disingenuous arguments. You're in favor for this because in the short term it works great for you and in the long term you either don't care enough to be bothered and are more than willing to let it work itself out.
nikka this is literally what I said.
I’m bad at keeping up with stuff. It’s more likely I will be able to access my digital library in the future, than it is I will have a bunch of discs and corresponding hardware.
I’m not the one being disingenuous here. You making up lies, exaggerations, ignorance and random doomsday scenarios to argue for discs.[/QUOTE]
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Do you guys still have crt sets or are you plugging these older systems directly into your assess 
moving on...
