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Kasz216 on 30 January 2008
HappySqurriel said:

I really don't know ...

Nintendo created the business model which is used by all console manufacturers today, and only their clever approach towards retailers got the NES into retail outlets after the industry crash of the 1980s. Without Nintendo I don't think console gaming would have caught on when it did ...

As a result of this PC gaming would probably be far more popular


That's basically how i see it.  I don't even think there would of been a Sega system had Nintendo not released first and showed the market was viable. 

I'm not even sure we'd have console games... and if we did i'd imagine they'd be a generation or two behind where they are today... and PC gaming would be huge.

 



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brute on 30 January 2008

well i think we would be playing games on pc



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Kasz216 on 30 January 2008
SuperDave said:
Mind you, Nintendo wasn't the only player at the time. Sega and Atari were competing for 2nd place, so if Nintendo had never been around, it's possible Sega or Atari might of become the primary leader of the industry. Now, if Atari, Sega and Nintendo didn't exist, I'd agree that the PC gaming market would of expanded un-impeded, and would likely have total dominance at this point.

The Atari is what killed gaming... it wouldn't of brought it back... while sega really didn't have the funding before the NES came out in 83.

They were killed by the crash, had to sell off their assets. I doubt CSK would of taken the risk on Sega making a console until the NES success hit it's stride.



Kasz216 on 30 January 2008
Kai Master said:
People saying we would be living in a PC-dominated gaming world is plain stupid! I never like playing on a PC and never will! If it was I would be playing marbles lol
I don't think Nintendo was important, another firm would have made the VG market reborn (Sega or Phillips?)

Phillips wasn't interested until Nintendo made the first move,(in Nintendo type system) and Sega wouldn't have had the backing or support. No one else was willing to take up the ball.

Console gaming would probably be more along the lines of those systems you plug into your TV with 4 or 5 games on them.

Sega of America only existed because of Nintendo's revial of the market.



Thatmax on 30 January 2008

I think that Apple would maybe take Nintendo's position in the casual gaming market.



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Nintendo Fan Girl on 30 January 2008

there would be no world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



wiiforever on 30 January 2008
routsounmanman said:

 lolol - I agree - the world would be barren and cold without Ninty. No MARIO??????? How could that even be possible? Video game market would be small if even existant



supermario128 on 30 January 2008

I don't want to think about a world without Nintendo.




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Wojtas on 30 January 2008

I wouldn't have lost me sight, wouldn't have become a fat blob at the age of 6, wouldn't have.....oh no, wait...I'm done actually ;).



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Sky Render on 30 January 2008

Well, the first impact would be that there would've been no resurge in popularity of Hanafuda in the late 1800s. There would be no Nintendo taxi company, love hotel business, TV station, food company, or toy manufacturer in the 1960s (not that there would be much missed there; toys aside, Nintendo didn't do well in those ventures). Gunpei Yokoi might still be alive now (hard to say for sure, stuff does happen), but neither he nor Shigeru Miyamoto would end up being world-renowned for their work in the gaming industry.

The gaming industry would likely have eventually taken root again anyway after the crash of the early 1980s, but it wouldn't have likely developed anywhere near the same way. The industry was largely American-dominated before Nintendo stepped into the scene, and would likely remain that way since Sega didn't get into the market until after Nintendo had shown that Japanese developers had a good shot at it. Console gaming at large would likely have remained an American pastime more than a Japanese or European one.



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