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.
Video game industry as always trailblazing for all the worst reasons. But sure some pronouns, a minority and a woman in games is the problem. Got mfs paying 10s of thousands on diablo immortal, will end up getting adverts every 5 minutes in a triple A game like crusty mobile games but they’ll still whine about a minority even in non speaking roles. Gamers do this to themselves I swear