A lot of people think gaming is an inferior art form to movies, but in my opinion gaming has already surpassed movies in so many ways. I love them both, but it recently hit me that there is one sad truth to today's gamers' future. Movies are conserved in a much more reasonable way, easily converted and passed on. Anyone can go out and rent a copy of 2001 or The Shining or Psycho despite them being rather old. Hell, my history class just finished watching a silent film from 1918.
The sad truth I've come to realize is that in the near future, not even 10-15 years from now, if we haven't conserved our own systems and games, our favorite games will be for the most part unavailable.
It's only been ten years or less and I'm looking back to older games like Planescape, Xenogears, Grim Fandango, FF7, and Ico and their are impossible to find in stores and ridiculously priced online. Ten years from now these games will have basically vanished, kept only by those who have managed to preserve them.
But even preservation won't keep most games alive for one lifetime. The games will eventually break or come to some unfortunate end, and there won't be any way to replace it.
I know people are trying to keep certain games alive for the next generation through things like the PS3 and 360's ability to play past generation's games and the Wii's virtual console even reaches back to the SNES and N64 eras, but I fear this will only be useful for so long. Does anyone think that older hits and non-popular games are soon to be endangered?
The one TRUE downside to gaming
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The one True Downside to gamingIT KILLS YOUR WALLET TO KEEP UP WITH AND BUY NEW GAMES THAT COME OUT.ThaLootDog
i Think that about sums it up.
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