Maybe Microsoft would've acquired Sega in the late 90's, and to compete against Nintendo (and maintain Sega's "cool kids" phase) they start online gaming earlier. Disk based gaming would've been a real problem. Nintendo makes a "hardcore" console to answer MicroSega's online gaming thing. Japanese developers (SquareSoft, Capcom, Konami, etc) go with Nintendo; Western devs (Activision, EA, Ubisoft, etc) go with Sega.
This is my view. Nintendo VS Sega would've kept a fierce fight as it was before Sony entered, and since MS is such a big company and gaming was changing, they see a way to enter helping the "struggling" Sega (specially since both were pioneers for online gaming).
Bet with bluedawgs: I say Switch will outsell PS4 in 2018, he says PS4 will outsell Switch. He's now permabanned, but the bet will remain in my sig.
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