| Salnax said: 1. Yokoi would probably end up staying with Nintendo as an advisor/teacher IMO. If I had to guess, he would split his time between being an advisor and a mentor up through 2006 or so. Among other things, this would mean he'd provide insight during the 2002 Metroid Prime/Fusion reboot, would give his two cents for the GBC, GBA, and GBN, and their various redesigns. If I had to guess what his effects would be based on the design of the WonderSwan series, I'd say they'd likely sacrifice screen size and power for battery life and low price. Perhaps there'd be a Game Boy Micro released in 1999 or so ala the GBA Micro in real life? 2. Until I can think of a good reason otherwise, I'm keeping Bandai's ultimate fate similar to our timeline's. I still have more research to do on them though, so anything can happen. Hell, maybe they'd try making a console again like they did as late as 1995 in collaboration with Apple. 3. Good thoughts. I have to research these people. 4. My plan was for Final Fantasy 1 through 3 to receive GBC remakes and for 4 through 6 to be remade for the GBA earlier in the system's life. I guess the Nitro would receive versions of 7 through 9 though. Hmm... 5. For sheer ease, I'm going to have Nintendo essentially release the 3DS in early 2012, with the dominant feature being an extra screen that happened to be in 3D. It will still keep the Game Boy name, though I am now wondering whether to call it the "Freedom" or the "Game Boy 3D."
Anyhow, I'd like to thank you for putting time into looking my stuff over. Like all good editors, you're making me aware of things I would never have thought of. You're obviously well-educated in video game history, and I'm very interested in anything you have to write. |
1. As an I say before, Yokoi is a pretty big wild card but again he want to reduce his own 'responsabilities' in the company, he know he start to become old and doesn't want to be a weight for the company, being Advisor-Teacher is the better for him with Nintendo(maybe as the seven member of Nintendo Board of Managers post Yamauchi retirement?). His thing with the Wonderswan was to compete with the gameboy in his big streght...Batery life, and pretty easy manage to do that(with a single battery and backlight.... the wonderswan both monocrome and color/Crystal endure as long as the old gameboy!!!), maybe here he will push for light and portability(like a gameboy color light and/or color pocket redesing and a game boy advance micro early(skipping the Advance SP)) for the portable, and maybe finally push for power in the Nitro, when the tech is enough cheap(and with only one screen will be more easy to do that)
2. Better for bandai, that manage more freedom, and with work with apple again... maybe not so much, the Pippin burn hard both companies....
3. yes much of those people manage to have an impact in the industries, Sakaguchi for taking blame of FF:SW fiasco and Takahashi for his ideas and gameplay experiment(xenogears was pretty interesting and original, Xenosaga is a game with several flaws, specially being more an anime than a game, Xenoblade make him won the respect of Nintendo fans, like me,XD), again here Kojima and Clover Studios(now Platinum) side with SEGA, maybe Itagaki/Tecmo will side with nintendo(Ninja Gaiden 3d will be more easy that having to compete to Devil May Cry and Sega own Shinobi & Kunoichi) and maybe Namco(SEGA is still a rival in the Arcades plus having tekken and ridge racer can help both companies), those thing are interesting too.
4. Don't doubt that Square(and enix and other too) will take advantage of the portable for ports or update rerelease of the game, for the GBA, Several wonderswan game will appared too, maybe SaGA will be remade and exported for the GBA and later the Nitro without issued, ditto for Final Fantasy(maybe Square will be the one to take advantage of 1GB gamecard of Nitro for the Final Fantast VII to IX remakes/port) and don't forget Mana series and front mission to the mix.
5.Interesting releasing the 3DS(3D Dual Screen, LOL) in similar date, maybe keeping the Gameboy Name, Freedom sound better for a full internet based one(like PSP-GO, no using cart), maybe Game Boy 3DS(as wink to OTL) or game Gameboy Cubed(as homage to 3D and having similar power to gamecube even in the lower brace)
Thanks for the compliment, yes i become a connoisseur thanks to friends and acquitances who work with Club Nintendo of Mexico(a gaming magazine in spanish for Mexico-Latin America) and with a lot of reading in several website/blogs, and i'm thinking two big ideas(one classic, other overlooked), thanks, waiting for more details of your work, you work of a motion less wii was amazing(possible the nintendo sucess thanks to both rivals shoothing thenselves in the foot and the secret weapon who was Wii Fit in our world.... that game change the vision of videogame for some in family(mother))
