"What If" moments of the gaming industry...

[alpha_dk]

disolitude said:

alpha_dk said:

blunty51 said:
1) well i guess Sega might still have had a stake in the hardware business
2) nintendo would have probably never fallen from grace
3) uhh
4) uhh2
5) last place again

Agree with 1, 2, 3, 5

4a) It either would have been prohibitively expensive on the N64, so nothing would change, or
4b) It would be less FMV'd with N64 and PS version equivalency, in which case it is too hard to predict, or
4c) It would be less FMV'd and N64 would have had better graphics than PS version, in which case it is too hard to predict,  or
4d) N64would be less FMV'd and PS version would have more extras (possibly including FMV), in which case nothing would change

So, in at least 1/2 of the scenarios I can come up with, nothing would have changed.

 

 About your point number 4...Saturn and PS1 in Japan were head to head before Final Fantasy 7 came out. Some stats show that saturn was ahead for a good period in 1996. If Saturn version of FF7 was announced it could have sustained sega in Japan for a while longer.

Saturn had lots of canceled games not becuase they wouldn't have sold(Sega games sold in Japan well) but because the its Japanese userbase wasn't large enough to sustain Sega as a company so other companies knew that Sega would abandon the saturn prematurely. Resident Evil 2 was one of them... the trickle effect.

That's a good point.  I was only assuming FF7 N64/PS1 because those were the two consoles it had development time on

I guess that's why I shouldn't assume...