This is really a poignant topic to discuss because we are seeing the effects live with the Nintendo 3DS and Wii E-stores shutting down. Beyond the AAA or AA titles, there are indie games that do not have a GOG or Steam version to play, meaning that when Nintendo finally shuts off the servers next year, those games are now lost to time - not just abandonware, but even worst, lost media. Regardless of your definition, and if I were to be poetic, every game made is a work of art. It is what someone, or a team of someones, thought should be made, and with the doors closing, there will be very few, if any, ways to preserve those games for future generations to interact with.<br><br>It's really a shame because there are probably thousands of wonderful games that should have a wider audience that will simply be lost with no record of them because of the short-sightedness of games preservation.,(reply>), Worst part is that these large corporations seem to truly want the old material incinerated. When the world at-large cried victory when Sony said that they would not close the PlayStation 3 store, Sony was never, and still has never been to my knowledge, called out for their duplicitous half truth. When they said that they were not closing the store, what they really meant is that you could access it if you had original hardware with the back of limitations that would come with the original hardware. What Sony actually did is delayed a few HTML files so that the store was not accessible on any other device than an original PlayStation 3. there was even a Firefox extension that someone created to allow access to the content and somehow Sony went after that access as well.