I think it is most interesting that the PS3 was designed with the limitation of the CMOS battery in mind. As in, it was acceptable for the battery to run out in

I think it is most interesting that the PS3 was designed with the limitation of the CMOS battery in mind. As in, it was acceptable for the battery to run out in 15 years even with the network requirement. Maybe it was because the PS3 was one of the first consoles with a hard dependency on an internet service, and nobody bothered to look far enough into the future for the new implications. When someone thinks about a future where the PS6 exists, the conversation inevitably shifts back to the PS5, because the former is not perceived as an inevitability. 15 years, in the long-term span of things, doesn't seem like that long of a time period. It only sounds like it because we don't live that long, so 15 years is a significant portion of our lives, sometimes even a third of it or less. Whenever an entertainer or someone reaches their N-year anniversary, I'm reminded that their career might not even last five more years, especially the ones whose youth or lack of it influences managerial decisions. Opening Twitch, there were now zero streamers playing some games that were released only 6 years ago, even for big releases like the previous Smash Brothers. They still had a count of over 100,000 subscribers. It really solidifies how transient a lot of human culture is. Games are shipped, money is made (or not), some of the titles are caught on the filter, the rest are forgotten. Most likely, there were dozens of developers that poured out their heart and soul for some of those titles. Some of them might have had to suffer through crunch or the working environments of burakku kaisha with the cost of a lasting mental and/or physical toll. It's parts interesting and disheartening to think that some of their legacy will only ever have the lifespan of a CMOS battery. In a world where emulation was illegal, I wonder if Sony would truly be comfortable with watching the last aging PS3 rust away and letting the console become nothing more than a footnote in the history books, one that future generations would only be able to imagine experiencing, despite the technological capability for preservation being right in front of them the whole time. Maybe that's how little value the experience as a whole would carry to them. People move on, and there are always shiny new ideas to think of.