| baloofarsan said: The question about the success of the NES (that may have revived console gaming) could be quite big (for gaming). Without Nintendo would there be a Japanese influence on gaming at all? Would there be RPGs as we know them? What about the japanese heritage of art? Would there be collectathon elements in games? I guess narrative would be different. The mixture of the weird, fantastic japanese elements and the "realistic" western elements derived from Hollywood culture make many games different than other cultural phenomenon like movies or litterateur. (Analysing too deep!) |
Since Sega would have probably been the company to restart home consoles, I really have no idea why Japanese elements would be gone. And why would there not be RPGs? Neither Square nor Enix released their first games on Nintendo platforms. The Japanese software scene was moving forward swifty even without Nintendo. The home console revival would likely have come from Sega or NEC, so I think a Japanese influence was inevitable.
