[Libcat99]

This has also led to the preservation of many of the games I grew up with. There's still a market for NES and Atari consoles and a market for the cartridges because you can still play and use them.

It's going to be a very different story for modern consoles.

[grishka]

All current-generation consoles do still take physical media, but yeah, there already are some smaller games that only come as digital. For those, I guess, piracy is the only way they could be preserved.

[Libcat99]

The physical media doesn't matter if shutting down the service makes it unplayable.