You’re not reading my comments correctly.

> The software will keep working forever if you provide it with the same environment.

Theoretically, yes, obviously. The problem is that it not always easy or possible. If all gameboys are broken and no one with the skill takes the effort to create an emulator, it doesn’t matter that the game is still there. That’s why I said effectively lost.

> No one is holding you at a gunpoint to update your software, you can also always install old versions if it comes to that.

Again: theoretically yes. But effectively no.

I hardly find it a proper argument to claim that you can just not update. Like with an iPad, if you don’t update for too long certain apps will stop working because they force you to have a minimum ios version. And you can’t just install an older version of everything.