Building a game collection

[ic1male]

Does anybody do this - keep all the games they buy for their machines? I used to for the PC but have now sold everything and mostly use Steam for the few games that I play on PC these days.

I don't really keep games for the consoles as they are too pricey but I always get a twinge of sadness when I get rid of something. Has anyone got a big library for the PS2, for example? I was thinking about starting a library for the 360 now that there's a load of games for £10-£15 knocking about. It'd be nice to have them there for when you want to play again in a couple of years time or whatever.

Then I got wondering, when the next Xbox comes out will Microsoft be offering all the 360 titles as digital "Xbox 360 Originals" downloads on the Marketplace like they do with the odd Xbox game now. I suppose that all depends on whether they even have backwards compatibility. Intel will be after their business again with the Larrabee chip, I'm sure.

 

[ic1male]

Yeah, I can see that there is no real need to keep every single game under the sun but it's knowing which games are going to be the hardest to find again in the future if you fancy a play - they're the ones to hold on to. Trying to track down (inexpensive) pristine copies of Shadow of the Colossus and ICO is proving difficult.

I don't think there are any that have got the same level of "cult" status on the 360 yet, are there?

 

[ic1male]

And then of course there's the viewpoint that if you pick up the games when they are second-hand and pretty cheap, there's no real point in reselling them again for just a couple of quid.