Interesting topic. I look forward to some of the answers.
It’s a weird thing to consider, because several companies were already exploring pre-rendered graphics on SNES, and fully pre-rendered games were becoming a thing on PC - Myst exploded in the 1990s. Saturn is the obvious console to take up the mantle, but N64 would clearly beat it in 3D graphics. The real thing for customers at that time is the price - Saturn would be expensive in terms of hardware, N64 it terms of software… the PlayStation won because it had the hardware price of the N64 and the software price of the Saturn - best of both worlds.
Would Square, Konami, Capcom, Enix, and others leave Nintendo this time around? Would they go to Sega? Or would PC gobble up some of that market since it was taking off with Myst, and without the competition from PlayStation?
I can see it going in all possible directions.
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