the entirety of all roms and emulators are probably in the hands of those who actually want to play them, this only prevents research archives from being operated.

i find it interesting that OG retro games actually are considered threatening to modern AAA games.

Yep. The games are already being archived. It's kind of silly to strike down an official archival at this point, and only brings risk to consumers that seek out illegally distributed ROMs on malware-infested sites.

And shout out to Red Viper on the 3DS for letting me experience the Virtual Boy without needing to deal with a second hand market that gets more expensive as the years go by.

Why would it be anything other than expected that the top 10 or so percent of the whole history of games would compete favorably against any other subset of games, like whatever happens to be releasing this week?