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1. criddell · 1789561579 · focus · HN ↗

   This will be great for preservation of PS2 games. Well done!

   It seems like preservation of games for later consoles is a lost cause. If I pull out my PS5 30 years from now and pop in my Cyberpunk 2077 disk to play, I'm going to have a barely playable game.

   It's better than nothing, I suppose, but I won't be able to re-play the excellent version that I played through last year.

   1. mitxela · 1789565429 · focus · HN ↗

      In the PS2 days people thought that about the PS2, too.

      1. criddell · 1789566951 · focus · HN ↗

         IIRC, the PS2 did not download game updates or patches from the internet. The game on the disk was what you played. As long as you had a PS2 and the disk, you could play the exact game you played so many years ago.

         With the PS5, the disk is more or less a key that lets the console download the game. Having the console and the disk is a guarantee of nothing in the future other than you can probably play the buggy mess that they packaged up way before the game was done.

         1. zache6 · 1789580990 · focus · HN ↗

            It's usually the game being installed from disc to the SSD, as the Blu-Ray drive isn't fast enough for modern standards

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