2. You're Encouraging A Secondary Market Without Them
This is an actual listing pulled from Amazon.com for one Sega Dreamcast Sports Bundle. If there was a console that could teach us the importance of backwards compatibility and used games, it's the Sega Dreamcast. While the Dreamcast crashed and burned back in 2001, 2 years after its launch, it's found a healthy second life on the secondary market. Sellers through Amazon.com, ebay, and even (for a limited time) ThinkGeek themselves are involved in the Dreamcast business. And if the console doesn't rob you, the price of the games will, as some sellers are selling these games at close to, if not over, full retail price from their heyday. True, you could probably buy digital copies of some your favorites, like Crazy Taxi for instance. However, if you enjoyed all of those Offspring tunes you used to drive to, abandon all hope. Thanks to rights issues, you're getting generic music in the newer issue. And while we're on the subject of Crazy Taxi, has anyone even seen installments 2 or 3 on any other console besides Xbox? There aren't even digital substitutes available for those games, so if you want to play them, you better dig out that classic Xbox and track down a copy of Crazy Taxi 3. With Retro Consoles and Used Game capability, you're keeping gamers happy and at the same time mitigating how much money leaves the gaming industry and goes into the pockets of private sellers.