87% of games are lost forever. This is the alarming conclusion of the first study of gaming heritage across generations

The Video Games History Foundation conducted a study entitled 87% of Games Are Missing: The Disappearance of Classic Video Games. The study therefore explains that 87% of video games, or almost 9 out of 10 games, are simply no longer readily available. This is because these titles are not compatible with modern hardware or have not been ported or re-released. A sad conclusion, but not the only data from the study: no generation of consoles had a rate of more than 20% title reuse.

Apparently far too many games are coming out to be ported to the next gen every time. And sometimes there was no interest, either from an economic point of view or from a video game perspective, in bringing certain software to the market years later. This study is intended to serve as an argument in the ongoing battle with the copyright institutions that ensure video games are well preserved as art. And it proves that this is factually wrong. The Daily is over!

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