About Game Preservation in 2015

All at once is seems like the industry is talking about game preservation seriously — for better or worse.

Since the release of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 there has been a significant influx of rereleases. The cynical take on this is that in the time it has taken publishers to finish building their new games, they’ve realized how much money they can make reselling their old ones at almost full price. And it’s true — they have. Remastered, collection, definitive, etc… are all monikers we’ve been aggressively acquainted with over the past year. Even more so than ever before.

But if you look a little closer there’s something much cooler happening.