Mr_Whiffles: I know this isn't the ideal place to ask, but other forums haven't been much helpful. It seems that PS3, PSP, and PS Vita are starting to lose support and will probably be completely dropped in a year or so? I mean, you can't access their content on the PS Store website anymore. Is there a way or a place to go where they are preserving digital content of these systems? I have a ton of stuff I'd like to contribute, but don't know how. It'd be a shame for it to be lost forever.

InSaintMonoxide: I got that notion from experience. I never really thought about the issue until my OCD once drove me to check my entire used game collection for scratches and i noticed all my PS3 discs were in perfect mint condition. So after looking for the reason on the internet i tested a Blu Ray (it wasn't a game but some movie my brother gave me as he had two copies) by using it for an extended round of frisbee on the outside, even throwing it against a wall. After washing off the dirt there were still zero scratches and it worked as intended. I ended up violently working it over with a screwdriver to check just how durable it is and it ended up completely damaged beyond repair. So in my personal experience, Blu Rays scratch only if you actively try to damage them. Keep in mind though that the protective layer wasn't added in the very early days of Blu Rays, so very old Blu Rays might scratch like CDs and tend to fail earlier from scratches as you already mentioned.