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Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email
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this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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Completely ignoring that collectors preserve computer games the same way they do consoles, and just preserve a computer with the necessary requirements.
And both those computers and those consoles are subject to deterioration which has been a large argument towards backing up games through emulation. While you may never want to good luck finding a working Atari Jaguar CD, and that's just one of the easier examples.