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Soundwave on 06 June 2013

 

Lets assume Sony or Microsoft never entered the business. These are the caveats I'll add to the dicussion:

- The Sega of 1990s remains largely what is was (ie: Yu Suzuki, Yuji Naka, Sonic Team, and all the various divisions stay together). Sega has a rough financial patch for a while but recovers because there's no Sony/MS around to suck up marketshare.

- Nintendo never ventures off into "casual chasing" territory as it would be unneccesary, they only went that route because Sony/MS cornered the "hardcore" player.

- Technology advances at roughly the same rate, Sega adopts things like online play first and Nintendo begrudingly follows.

Do you guys think the industry would be better or worse off today if this was the case?



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ktay95 on 06 June 2013

http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Ohga_Shrugs
You should read this, an alternate history on the gaming industry if it was still Sega vs Nintendo



ktay95 on 06 June 2013

personally dont think the tech would have advanced as quick but that wouldn't have bothered me. also doubt it would be so mainstream with crap getting pushed out yearly with no change.



the2real4mafol on 06 June 2013

It would probably be like how it was in the 90's but with online gaming and fewer FPS games. Overall, awesome



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Mr Puggsly on 06 June 2013

EA would have made a console and dominated the industry.

The End.

Now lets never bring up this topic again.



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zorg1000 on 06 June 2013

I think the market would be smaller. Playstation was kinda the Wii of its time in the fact that it brought gaming to people who werent typically gamers. The 5th gen would have still grown but not nearly as much.

Its been told that Saturn was originally going to be much weaker but panicked at the PS specs and reworked the console making it more powerful but also more expensive and harder to develop for. So lets say Saturn released in Sept 1995 for $299 and was a 2D powerhouse with limited 3D capabilities like originally planned.

If they did that im not sure which console would have gotten the 3rd part supprt, the CD based but much weaker Saturn or the cartridge based powerhouse N64?



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Player2 on 06 June 2013

Nintendo could have remained hardcore, making 3D Marios and Zeldas instead of what they do now.



Mr Puggsly on 06 June 2013
the2real4mafol said:
It would probably be like how it was in the 90's but with online gaming and fewer FPS games. Overall, awesome

Hmmm... there were actually a ton of FPS games in the 90s.

I'm gonna name some off the top of my head... Wolfenstien, Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Quake, Blake Stone, Unreal, Turok, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Alien vs Predetor, Descent, Powerslave, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Half Life, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shogo MAD, South Park, Medal of Honor, etc.

Here's the irony about your statement. Nintendo and Sega were really pushing FPS games in the 90s. The N64 was a very popular console for shooters. Sega published popular shooters on the Saturn and used shooters to push online gaming for the Dreamcast.



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LemonSlice on 06 June 2013
ktay95 said:
http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Ohga_Shrugs
You should read this, an alternate history on the gaming industry if it was still Sega vs Nintendo


Oh man, that is so cool! Thanks for the link.