What with all the layoffs across the games industry to compensate for rampant budgetary overspending in publishing, the reality behind keeping retro games within a paid walled garden is about charging new money for old rope and controlling the market to force gamers to play new games.
The specific quote is that “there would be a significant risk that preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes.”
This explains why people like Jim Ryan hate retro games. They think these older games would cannibalize sales from newer releases, which is uniquely stupid.
Good luck with that lol the global south is crawling with bootleggers who sell bootleg consoles packed with retro games all the time. I have a couple myself to play all the SNES, PS1, and Arcade classics.
Heck, one of my cousins bought a nice console with thousands of bootlegged games on it in fuckin Green Bay Wisconsin. There’s no winning this fight