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Sonic would be a great game to re-do like Ducktales.  Fun platformer.   One of my favorite platformers, lost interest after Sonic 2 though. 



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grapenose said:

Sonic would be a great game to re-do like Ducktales.  Fun platformer.   One of my favorite platformers, lost interest after Sonic 2 though. 


Look up Sonic 2HD



If Sonic never existed, we wouldn't have a world filled with unoriginal OCs.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

Ultrashroomz said:
If Sonic never existed, we wouldn't have a world filled with unoriginal OCs.


Good Point!



grapenose said:

Sonic would be a great game to re-do like Ducktales.  Fun platformer.   One of my favorite platformers, lost interest after Sonic 2 though. 

Did you ever give Sonic 3 & Knuckles a try? It's the best Sonic game ever imo..



                
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If Sonic was never created we'd have one less crappy series in the industry. Sonic probably didn't even sell many consoles. Sega CD and 32X were addons but Sonic didn't help them sell consoles. Dreamcast was killed off early and the Sega Saturn sold less than 10m despite having a Sonic 3D Blast remake, Sonic R, and a collection of the Genesis Sonic games.  Sega didn't need Sonic for the SMS.  The SMS had Sonic, but it was a cross gen title.  The Genesis probably would have still been just as successful without Sonic



Jaleel White would only be known for Urkle. And we would of not seen a good animated show.



Furry porn would be set back by about 20 years. And because porn drives the Internet forward, we'd all still be on 56k dial-up connections. I wouldn't be able to visit this message board until after 11 p.m. because I wouldn't want to tie up the phone line.



There would have been no Bubsy or Aero the Acrobat :p

If Sony never entered the games market as some say, SEGA would have had FFVII, Ridge Racer and Tekken on the Saturn.



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Miguel_Zorro said:
KungKras said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
I think Nintendo still would have snubbed the third parties. Developers were fed up by the time the N64 came along. If Sony hadn't created a console, somebody else would have.

Apple, Panasonic and Atari did. They all failed.

As did NEC during the 16-bit gen.

Sony had a perfect storm, much like the arab conquests during the 7th century. It was unlikely to happen, but everything got timed right and the opposition made critical mistakes all at the most critical times.

Nintendo losting the top spot was not an inevitable outcome.

I didn't say anything about Nintendo losing the top spot.  The start of the thread says "Any of the competition's consoles such as Microsoft's Xbox would bomb since Nintendo having all the third party games+ Nintendo exclusives".  Apple, Panasonic and Atari all tried and "failed" before Nintendo alienated third parties.

With or without Sony, another console would have entered the marketplace and Nintendo would have lost some third party support, because if you read the history from the time, third parties were upset with Nintendo.  There was a gap in the market because Nintendo was charging excessive fees, forcing cartridges, not communicating with third parties, and making many other mistakes.  Without Sony, it would have been somebody else - Electronic Arts, Konami, whoever.  Whether that means Nintendo would have lost the top spot is a separate discussion.

Nintendo pissed off a lot of businessmen during the NES days. Didn't hurt the SNES.

And that was when NEC released the PC engine, which had many qualities that the PS1 had.



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