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RCTjunkie on 22 January 2014

I would've invested more heavily in sports, had a completely different set of friends, become more fit and attractive, and have more girlfriends which would have distracted me from school and lead me to a CSU school instead of a UC school.

All for better or for worse, Nintendo shaped my life pretty heavily.



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Soundwave on 22 January 2014
RCTjunkie said:
I would've invested more heavily in sports, had a completely different set of friends, become more fit and attractive, and have more girlfriends which would have distracted me from school and lead me to a CSU school instead of a UC school.

All for better or for worse, Nintendo shaped my life pretty heavily.


Basically Nintendo ruined your life ;). 



artur-fernand on 22 January 2014

Jesus, what's with the theories "Sega would do this, Sony would do that"?

History lesson: it's 1983, and everybody makes a gaming console. Consumers are alienated by a saturated market, and video games DIE in NA. On the same year, Nintendo releases the Famicom in Japan, effectively changing gaming's focus from NA to Japan. Sure, the Sega SG-1000 was released on the same day, but did it have Mario? Nope.

There would be NO VIDEO GAMES guys. No NES/Mario to reignite american's interest on video games, no Nintendo to ignite japanese's interest on games, no Sega making Sonic, no Sony being screwed by Nintendo. Nothing.

Maaaaaaybe we would have Doom, Wolfenstein and PC gaming in general. Maybe, but that's about it.



Anfebious on 22 January 2014

PC gaming would actaully be the supreme master race. We would all be using them to play videogames, do our laundry, take our dog out and even cook meals!



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killeryoshis on 22 January 2014

The console industry would not exist

All of gaming will be on PC

but mario would exist in some form I think



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JazzB1987 on 22 January 2014

We would play with this instead.




and VGCHARTZ would track toilet paper sales or something.



stuffmakesmelol on 22 January 2014
jigokutamago said:
Nintendo - Dominates the card and toy industry
Iwata - Works for Sega
Miyamoto - Writes manga
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DevilRising on 24 January 2014
kupomogli said:

Miyamoto wouldn't be with Nintendo but he'd still be around. Not like he can't exist without Nintendo. Other franchises that grew popular on the NES would instead grow popular on the Sega Master System and other consoles.

Sony might still actually get in the game because if Nintendo wasn't there, then Sega would have been the go to console. When the Playstation came out, because of Sega instead of Nintendo, Sega would actually have good third party support prior, because if you remember, it was Nintendo that got third party developers to sign contracts for a certain amount of years in order to develop for their console, and when the contract was over, they made threats that if the third party developed for another company then they wouldn't ever be able to release on a Nintendo console again. The reason behind third party developers stopped support Nintendo when the N64 launched.

So here's how I think it would be in the 32bit era. It'd probably be a split with the big three still, but instead of it being Nintendo, Sony, and Sega, it'd instead be Sega, Sony, and Hudson. Because Sega would have been a pretty healthy company, even if they did all the stupid crap they did, the Dreamcast wouldn't have killed them, even if it failed as bad as it did, With no Nintendo though and Sega never making third parties angry, Sega's gaming division would probably have been the biggest of the big three. They might have been the ones to get more exclusives than Sony, etc.

And who knows, with Sega releasing the Sega CD earlier, it might have been Sony who went to Sega and asked them about building a Sony Sega console. So in the 32bit gen it might have been Sony/Sega Playstation.

Different console publishers would have survived, but it'd probably be no different right now.  Replace Nintendo with Sega and Nintendo exclusives with whatever Sega exclusives would be out.  No Mario more than likely means no Sonic, but hey.  I don't mind one less bad game series.  Sonic is overrated.


Yeah.................no. Sega would not have been brave enough (and wasn't brave enough until NES' success) to even bother putting the Master System out. And you assuming that Miyamoto would have gone to work for Sega, or even been in video games at all, is a real stretch. He never planned on being a game designer, he was an artist, and working at Nintendo just happened to be a job he got that grew into something far more. And no, Sony never would have got into the console race either. The console market in NA and perhaps even Europe (because they were getting more into home computer gaming) would have stayed dead, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.



DanneSandin on 24 January 2014

Gaming would be a niche hobby.

Let's face it, Nintendo popularized video gaming in a whole new way, and they've been so inventive that console gaming wouldn't look anything like it does today; no Dpads, no shoulder buttons (?), no analog sticks, open worlds in 3D (AND in 2D (the legend of Zelda was one of the very first open world games)) would have taken a lot longer before being possible.



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