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Nem on 06 June 2013

It would be a much better world if you ask me.

The loss of old SEGA was a near headshot in the industry. They were responsible for the majority of innovation until then across all genres. SEGA games were always fun to play and they had great talent in the company. Nowadays... they all left or got fired.



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Zizzla_Rachet on 06 June 2013

Sega would have would by adopting arcade hardware for consoles like they did with the dreamcast..



 



Weedlab on 06 June 2013

I don't think I would like that universe. :/

 

It would have been interesting though. I'd probably still remain a Nintendo enthusiast.



 

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Darc Requiem on 06 June 2013

I think the markets in North America and Japan would be the same. Where Sony made the big difference was Europe. Consoles were niche in the PAL market until the PS1 came on the scene.



KungKras on 06 June 2013
Darc Requiem said:
I think the markets in North America and Japan would be the same. Where Sony made the big difference was Europe. Consoles were niche in the PAL market until the PS1 came on the scene.


Not the entire PAL market.

Nintendo consoles were huge in Sweden.



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Mr Puggsly on 06 June 2013
the2real4mafol said:
Mr Puggsly said:
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.

I meant military shooters like Battlefield and Call of Duty and anything else like it. Medal of Honour was really the only one, Battlefield didn't come until 1999/2000. Shooters were more about fun than realism back then. But gaming seemed to be more about platformers back then at least until the Playstation became really popular. Maybe one genre wasn't massively dominant back then

Even before Medal of Honor and Battlefield there were games like Spec Ops and Rainbow Six. After Nintendo released Goldeneye it became clear there was demand for more realistic shooters. So blame Nintendo I guess. But I'm sure you know not all shooters on the market today are realistic or even military games.

I wouldn't say one genre is massively dominant today either. Because that would imply other genres don't sell as well as shooters.



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Darc Requiem on 06 June 2013
KungKras said:
Darc Requiem said:
I think the markets in North America and Japan would be the same. Where Sony made the big difference was Europe. Consoles were niche in the PAL market until the PS1 came on the scene.


Not the entire PAL market.

Nintendo consoles were huge in Sweden.

Nintendo and Sega were selling less than 10 million units each in Europe. Sony stopped treating Europe like second class citizens and reaped the benefits.