Xbox boss Phil Spencer has voiced his belief that older games should be preserved, adding that he hopes the gaming industry can work on “legal emulation” to promote this.Speaking to Axios, Spencer said that the gaming industry should prioritise the preservation of older video games.
Highlighting that film, TV and music industries already preserve older content, Spencer said “there’s positive reasons for gaming to want to follow”.Spencer suggested that one way to enact video game preservation would be for industry leaders to offer “legal emulation”.“My hope (and I think I have to present it that way as of now) is as an industry we’d work on legal emulation that allowed modern hardware to run any (within reason) older executable allowing.
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