With pirated games, you can play them forever. There already exist games which you can (illegally) play today only because they were archived by pirates. Howev

With pirated games, you can play them forever. There already exist games which you can (illegally) play today only because they were archived by pirates. However with the consoles' security getting better, piracy not being as widespread as back in the day and the industry not being interested in game preservation it's also a matter of time before we start permanently losing games again.