Quote Originally Posted by JakeM View Post
You guys do know that in 5 decades people will see the Atari through Genesis era of gaming as the stone age? Retro is always going to be around as gaming goes forward, its not like its gonna disappear as long as people can see with their eyes and use their hands to do stuff. Hell there will be games when were doing everything with just our minds with computer chips. There will also be games, and games that are 20 years to 30 years old will be retro. Ps2 will be someones 2600 and at the end of the PS4's life time you'll see those $10 copies of God of War be $50.

In 50 years, maybe sooner, video games ( or the equivalent thereof ) might be indistinguishable from anything that's been on the market up til now.
If in 1963 you tried to explain the internet or a current gen console, or even earlier, most people would have no frame of reference of what you were talking about.
Then tell them there will be over 500 stations on the television that is now shaped like a movie theater screen.

Thankfully however, these games now are being archived digitally as in 50 years from now, most of the cart based games will inevitably corrode regardless of how much care is taken care of them and I don't think optical drives will be around in 10 years, much less 50.