Since the nature of digital goods has evolved (or failed to, as the case may be in some instances) as consoles have marched onward, it seems less useful to categorize certain varieties of digital games under their parent console.

One day, if the digitally-distributed goods on consoles become more diversely downloadable (here's looking at you, Microsoft and Nintendo! ...don't get complacent now, Sony), I'll have a more compelling reason to properly categorize themselves as their own things, but as it stands, they might as well be regarded as mere offshoots of the only hardware that can play them.

The only real exception here seems to be PSOne Classics, which can be played on PS3, PSP, and PS Vita as a broad category rather than the examples set by most PSN titles (which must be categorized separately on a by-the-console basis to have any real meaning), Xbox LIVE Arcade, the various Virtual Consoles, and et cetera.

I've had high hopes for these various digital implementations, but for the time being, this is the best we can do and now the burden falls upon the end user to make any reasonable sense of things on their own. And thus Backloggery's existence was made more important now than ever. (For me. You guys keep on rockin' it how you want.)

And don't get me wrong, I love all the subcategorizations offered... I just find that they'll be more specifically useful to me if I give them a slightly off-label use as opposed to how they were intended to be used.

Been awhile, but I've felt it necessary to keep house a bit just because of this digital future slowly and surely encroaching upon us... I've taken on the task of taming the less-conveniently-perused Sony and Microsoft digital landslidescapes.

If I haven't totally killed myself and/or my will to continue, I'll tackle Nintendo, Steam, and THEN try to figure out how I'll manage to figure out what I've been slacking on documenting in terms of physical releases.

Welp, I'm here... I'm not entirely convinced that this is necessarily the best of ideas for me to get into something like this, but hopefully it'll help me get this kind of thing under control in the long run.

Somehow just the act of *having* a list and being aware of the actual scale of what's going on with my (virtual... although a really nice physical one would be nice someday, too) shelves should hopefully keep me under control.

The alternative is that it'll just serve as a stern reminder that I'm a terrible person and now everybody who cares to bother to find out will know it, too. :3