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Trump tariffs threaten the future of physical video games, analyst warns (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Game preservationists have long argued that a move to a digital-only future will cause games to be lost forever if proper preservation measures aren’t put in place.

There are already scores of online-only titles that can no longer be played either due to their delisting or servers being shut down. In some cases, game discs serve only as physical entitlement keys to be able to play the digital version of the game, meaning if the digital store itself shuts down in the future the disc will become useless.

Once again, the key to preservation is DRM-free, not physical media. We were already headed toward a future with no physical media for games, and these tariffs will only accelerate that. They may be a similar accelerant in the death of consoles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

True, many games sold physically are still faced with the risk of disappearing, due to DRM...