Or people had to put priorities over other things before getting them, whenever it's financial or life decisions along with time for those games. If you collect for other systems a lot and wanted to get those games before they get pricey along with the ones that are pricey anyways then I can see why they never got to them but wanted to. People can try to buy them it's just there are many other factors that get in the way so the whole "never going to buy them" thing doesn't always fly here.
Streaming might get to a lot of it that we consider lost but is stored somewhere. For example, in Spain the public TV has this massive warehouse of tapes and DVDs with decades worth of content. Recently, I subscribed to a Spanish streaming platform called Filmin focused on independent film and classics, and was surprised to find my childhood cartoons that I thought I'd never be able to see again in their catalogue.That's just film. Television is much worse than this. A lot of TV programs made as recently as the 90s are just lost permanently.
The only reason more of it isnt permanently lost than it is, is because a woman named Marion Stokes realized this problem and ran VHS recordings of broadcast tv every day from 1979 until she died in 2012.
'Recorder': Meet The Woman Who Recorded 70,000 Tapes Of American News
Marion Stokes recorded over 70,000 tapes of television from the late 1970s until her death in 2012.amp.wbur.org
The majority of the tv programs i grew up with are simply permanently inaccessible in any format. Cant be bought, rented, streamed or otherwise.
What's the difference between cutoff being 'must own PS2' vs 'must own PS3'? As far as preservation goes, you're stuck with the same hardware cut-off as 95% of all console history, everywhere.
My wish as well. Just make them all part of the subscription. If server costs are an issue, then that immediately creates a steady stream of revenue. Bonus points if they make an emulator & allow us to also download this games just like PS4 games on PS Now (yes, I am completely aware of the difficulty of making PS3 games playable this way).
Not ports, it's digital-only BC(emulated) releases. But yes, the selection isn't much smaller than PS1 classics in the end, it actually grew faster in the years it's been active - had they not basically shut it down with PS4 launch, it'd probably be larger of the two by now.
I agree.
And even then, PS3s will die at some point. Heck even the servers can get taken down.
100%
Personally, I'm all for the digital future. The days of clogging entire rooms with carts & discs* can stay in the past. Megacorps continually fuck it up for everyone though.
I think that the added weight of their stores going on and Microsoft leveraging BC as a massive feature, and that we already got PS4 on PS5 will help. I think the pressure will get tighter for Sony, to hopefully act.
I read the article, I'm just signaling that that is not always the case, different countries or networks have different attitudes towards it and that streaming has the potential to bring stuff back. Of course a lot has been lost, but also a lot has been preserved and we may not even be aware.
Not really. Only a very small minority are angry at this shitty move.
Well, we can only hope that it makes it out to more mainstream media publications, too. That's when the masses really get the info about it.
Now this is a take.
Holy shit, what a legend.That's just film. Television is much worse than this. A lot of TV programs made as recently as the 90s are just lost permanently.
The only reason more of it isnt permanently lost than it is, is because a woman named Marion Stokes realized this problem and ran VHS recordings of broadcast tv every day from 1979 until she died in 2012.
'Recorder': Meet The Woman Who Recorded 70,000 Tapes Of American News
Marion Stokes recorded over 70,000 tapes of television from the late 1970s until her death in 2012.
The majority of the tv programs i grew up with are simply permanently inaccessible in any format. Cant be bought, rented, streamed or otherwise.
It's very clear in my opinion when Ryan says "who wants to play those games?" yet at the same time they keep re-releasing old titles, often with few improvements like God of War 3, the Jack and Daxter trilogy, Ico & SotC remaster, Uncharted, Sly Raccoon and you see other publishers with DMC collection, Silent Hill, Metal Gear. Additionally, they release the PlayStation Mini to capitalize on those classics... It's clear they know there are people who want to play old games, they are just choosing to maximize profit to ridiculous levels.
Exactly. MS changed their mind the next day after Gold price increase. This is already losing steam compare to the "outrage" at MLB on Game Pass.
