PC Gaming's Superpower: Preservation

When you think of PC gaming's biggest strengths, what do you usually think of? Higher quality graphics and framerates? Hardware modularity? Modding? Free Online Multiplayer?All of these are great strengths of the PC, but I'd argue the one everyone keeps forgetting about is PC's biggest strengths: its open nature.I am of course talking about True Game Preservation and Near Infinite Backwards Compatibility. The floodgates have opened for many denizens who claim to be switching to PC... all of this is in the wake of Sony's colossal mistake and their willingness to double down headfirst into an all-digital future.Game Preservation?Credit: National Videogame MuseumOne of the biggest points people like to bring up as a kind of negative towards PC is that everything on PC is digital-only at this point. That is all true, as Steam itself is a digital only store front and has been for over 20 years at this point.Even modern "physical" releases for PC tend to come with keys for Steam or some…