The flip side is:

1. Playstation purchases seem to follow accounts and most games will run on future hardware.

2. Cross-platform is near universal now. While you may not be able to play the PS5 version on your PS9, you will likely be able to run the PC version still.

There's a subset of the preservation community who are focusing on decomp/recomp with PCs as the target architecture. x86 / Windows will outlive all of us, and with the source code, games can be recompiled for newer target architectures. This is trivial with LLMs now (targeting new architectures, not the decomp/recomp - though that has made progress too).

It's not a perfect solution, but it's good enough, IMHO.

> most games will run on future hardware.

Until Sony decides you no longer own them.