Ryudo wrote:if a disc breaks or cart stops working I go online or to a store and replace it. New or used. Maybe a higher price for new but at least it exists. That DD game is gone for good on that lost system memory.
Valid point, but it would still have to be a physical problem, thus making it physical media. No red tape is stopping you from playing the game, the fact that it broke physically.
Dorian wrote:I can't agree that the probability of a console going dead is equal to the probability of a game disc/cart going dead.
Depends on the format and on the console. PSX games (for example SaGa Forntier) can actually break from normal use after a few years, while PS3 Blu rays are almost impossible to freaking break. A Jaguar CD was most likely produced broken, but a gamecube could likely survive a nuclear strike. I have a 20 year old gameboy that works, with a few carts that don't (yea I'm lookin at you Pokemon silver)
and to my credit that was a really bad power issue, you should have seen my apartment, thankfully I hadn't moved any games in yet, plus that little experience almost destroyed a few of my fire emblem games.