360 vs PS3 as future retro platforms...

[The Last Horseman]

That's one thing I'm glad about being in on this generation for. I can get DLC when it comes out. And the thing about it not being archived, it just not in an orderly fashion. I know many people playing unarchived illegal DLC. I hang out with pirates, only kid that buys legit games...

[Weekend_Warrior]

Far as collectable...a non-Slim 360 that actually works in 10 years?

You could question the same thing about the backwards-compatible PS3's!

[jvalentine98]

I went ahead and got a PSP to play my PSOne games on. There's a good selection of them now and seeing as how flash storage should potentially last longer than a hard drive, I wouldn't waste my cash using a PS3 to play PSone classics.

I came to this conclusion because PSOne and N64 memory cards (flash) are still going strong well over a decade after release. Hard drives rarely last that long if used a lot. I know flash can fail after so many uses, but it would take me a lifetime and probably longer to reach that many uses.

Battery runs its course in the PSP? Ok plug it in with the AC. The screen can be replaced if it dies out on you. It's not a perfect option to keep PSOne alive without worrying about scratched discs, but it's a pretty good one.