Originally posted by: pixelsmash
Originally posted by: Tulpa
They'll be curiosities, the same way music cylinders they describe are curiosities today. And the more classic games themselves I think will hold some interest, played on something other than original hardware.
But collecting carts and such will not be. Playing on original hardware has links to nostalgia, something people 100 years from now won't have any real desire to do.
Why do you think physical media would not be seen as something meaningful any less that today? I think a game is still a game and the ownership/physical experience aspect will be just a relevant, I don't think time and tech evolution will take that away from us. If people will collect anime figures a 100 years from now, they will collect nes games. I don't think time/progress changes the physical experience/ownership aspect.
I think it's a bold assumption that anybody is going to collect anime figures 100 years from now (at least, in meaningful quantity).
I don't doubt that there will still be enthusiasts for our specific hobby, 100 years in the future, but you're talking about our great-GREAT-grand-kids generation, maybe even more removed than that.
These are people that will have no nostalgia for something like the NES, at all.
Think about how few people, today, care about something like silent films.
Or for something even more recent, and even less relevant... how about radio dramas...
Our parents, or their parents, certainly have nostalgic attachment to those things.
But I suspect that very few of us have spent much time with either medium, and even few of our kids, or their kids will in the future.