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I'm torn. Losing physical disks won't affect things like game preservation, but losing the second hand market sucks.
The second hand market has always been weird. Sometimes it's great, but then it flips and eventually things there become more expensive.
The only thing for it is to simply embrace
I would never dream of doing such a deeply immoral thing and certainly haven't put together a sizable collection of emulators and ROMs
Did you know an Oppo A80 - a barely above entry level Chinese phone from a few years ago - can emulate a PS2 at full speed now pretty stably? Who knew.