Quote Originally Posted by Gregger View Post
Perhaps, but emulation is full of faults, look at something like Sega Saturn emulators for example.
All emulators get better over time. They'll get there. It's the only real way to preserve this stuff long term: your NES, 2600, Odyssey II, and Vectrex will all die eventually.

I have a Steam library of 150 games or so: if I do not redeem a code, then I can gift a purchase or trade it, but otherwise? Once I've bought the game, I'm completely unable to do anything with it other than play it. I cannot trade it in. I cannot sell it. This is probably the way of the future, like it or not.

Some of that is mitigated by being able to download it as many times as I want as I upgrade my computer or re-install an OS, but digital downloads destroy the weird used games market which has caused so much fuss. You can often get them on sale at used game prices and there's no incentive to take something off the market because the overhead is non-existent for publishers.

I'm not saying it's an optimal solution, but it's probably where we're headed.

There's also the possibility that they decide not to use the technology. I think the same rumor was going around shortly before the PS3 launched.