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This. The only games I own are for the PS4 and I only buy games I know I'm going to actually play. Long gone are the days of randomly buying things because I "need" it for my collection, it looks cool, is cheap or whatever other reason people usually come up with to justify collecting shit they never use.I've held on to the hardware for the most part and sold off all my physical games.
So yeah, flash carts and ODEs all the way down to avoid needless clutter but I intend to hold on the machines for the foreseeable future... especially now that they can all be reliably played on 4k TVs without significant syncing or input lag issues.
The sentimentality that a lot of people have for their stuff can be a huge hinderance in letting go of anything. I get it, you mowed 50 lawns to buy that console when you were 10, that was a gift from your grandma etc. plus all the memories associated with it. Here's how I look at that; you've had the game or console for years or oftentimes decades, isn't that enough? Plus if you sell it off there is a chance it will end up with someone who does actually appreciate it or is getting to appreciate it for the first time. Maybe they have a kid and that kid will enjoy it as much as you did. Who knows.
Sometimes I kind of feel bad about getting rid of my home carts but I had a lot of them for around a decade, that's enough.
Think less about the stuff you don't have or got rid of and more time actually enjoying what you do and the options available to you. It's way more fun than obsessing over trivial bullshit.