What would have happened if the original Sonic was never released

[KungKras]

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.