Actually, Sony tried to give Nintendo the shaft.

HAHA! Idiot trolls are funny.

Yeah, Nintendo contributed nothing to the video gaming world, right? Give me a break.

The Sega master system would probably have taken it's place, although possibly on a smaller scale.

Technologically would be pretty much the same, gaming in America would have been stunted for a couple years until personal PCs became more common but current hardware would be very similar.

I never said that

A large portion of the reason the NES was so successful and why the industry is so successful today is that Nintendo created a business model which was more stable and secure and protected the interests of all stakeholders in the industry. By the end of the generation retailers felt far more confident in stocking games from "well known" publishers, consumers felt far more comfortable buying games, and publishers were in a much better position to create reliable revenue from the industry.

Some people would say that we would just be playing PC games without the NES but I'm not sure of that. The PC industry faced the most rapid growth in the wake of the NES in a large part because publishers had recovered from the industry crash and were re-investing their profits into markets where there was opportunity ...

Beyond that, Nintendo in general (and Myiamoto in particular) is very responsible for creating many orignial elements which were evolved into the foundation that many genres are based on today. While most genres might have evolved in a similar fashion without being influenced by Nintendo's work, I can't help but think most games would have ended up being very different.

Well, was it a joke then?

no thats if we didn't have spider-man 3

Gaming on PCs would be stronger maybe?

Were there that many good games on computers back then? I know PC's were not nearly as wide spread as they are now. I know I had some good games on my Commodore 64 back in the day as a kid, but those got blown away by just about everything on the NES.