For starters, there's zero need to defend clones. My interest is clearly there and they're a nice thing to have and I'm looking forward to advancements like this one possibly has to offer. So why you're leaping to their defense, I don't know. I wasn't out attacking them in the first place.

I simply pointed out the obvious. The ability to load roms from a memory source, if it happens here, is hardly going to kill the sales of things like Harmony cartridges. People aren't lining up at the door to throw away their original hardware. So there's no need to hope that this lacks that feature out of some mistaken thought that it will protect the homebrew manufacturers that design and build those devices.

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When I took my Atari VCS controller out of a closet a few years ago - which had only been very lightly used and never by me, and was sold by a reputable member here - one of the joysticks was so brittle that just light handling caused a part to break off. '90s consoles? Filled with tons of cheap crap, like the capacitors. So yeah, we're gonna need new stuff man. But delude yourself as much as you like, it's probably future hardware sales for me.
My classic consoles all say otherwise. And when things do fail like capacitors, they're replacable. And I've never had a Atari 2600 joystick become brittle and can log right into Best Electronics website and order everything I need to rebuild one into brand new condition when I need to.

I'm not worried. I'm sure I'd see it differently if I had an interest in selling these, but I'm just a classic gamer. I'll worry when I have issues and if all this stuff is going to be as failure prone as you think it is, I may as well go to PC emulation if it did happen because the games and quality original accessories will also be dying en masse if we subscribe to your scenario.

There won't be anything left to play.

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If even original systems aren't internally compatible, it makes that "guarantee of compatibility" claim seem rather windy, doesn't it?
If you actually do some reading, you will see that the goal is 100% compatibility. That's a fine goal to strive for even though I'm sure they won't reach it. And I'd be disappointed in anything less than aiming for that mark.

But you're twisting it around as if it's some sort of promise here when it isn't.