Salnax said:
Don't worry, I've thought about that. The Dreamcast would come out at least a year later in my timeline. That said, that still puts it as early as 1999, and Sega stuck to 6 year cycles for a while. Maybe a 2000 release date for the Dreamcast? Hmm... if we abuse Moore's Law and simply double the Dreamcast's specs (God help me) it would still have a weaker CPU than the GameCube, but more GPU and RAM. The real question is whether the Dreamcast would use regular CDs like in real life or DVDs like the GameCube and PS2? Because depending on that answer, console gaming could have been held back for a generation. Can you think of any specific franchsises, developers, or publishers that would stay on the PC? I can think of plenty of 21st century examples, but the PS1 seems to have mostly been dominated by Sony 1st party games, Japanese games, and the ocassional Western developer that seemed destined for consoles. Honestly, the chief games I'm kicking out of the console boat so far are Warzone 2100 and Medal of Honor. |
Maybe Oddworld would have stayed on PC as well. I think the effects would be seen more in later gens, since it wasn't until then that PC was starting to get excluded more by PC devs, in the fifth gen, it started out as PC ports and PC game companies doing console projects then the migration became more severe later on. You'll have to look up what PC studios started working on console games, rather than seeing what PC series started to appear on consoles.
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