By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Gaming Discussion - A World Without Nintendo ...

Lawlight on 15 January 2016
baloofarsan said:
It would be even more of a "Little Boys Club" with dark, gritty, realistic, mature games.

 

You know very well that there's plenty of variety even without Nintendo.



Around the Network
Lawlight on 15 January 2016
EricFabian said:
Lawlight said:
Consoles existed before Nintendo got in the business and would have existed even if they didn't.

Not Playstation

 

It would have existed even without Nintendo.





StarDoor on 15 January 2016
Lawlight said:
EricFabian said:

Not Playstation

 

It would have existed even without Nintendo.

There's absolutely no way PlayStation would exist without Nintendo.



Lawlight on 15 January 2016
StarDoor said:
Lawlight said:
EricFabian said:

Not Playstation

 

It would have existed even without Nintendo.

There's absolutely no way PlayStation would exist without Nintendo.

Sony has its fingers in many pots. Console gaming would have been one of them at some point.





StarDoor on 15 January 2016
Lawlight said:
StarDoor said:
Lawlight said:
EricFabian said:

Not Playstation

 

It would have existed even without Nintendo.

There's absolutely no way PlayStation would exist without Nintendo.

Sony has its fingers in many pots. Console gaming would have been one of them at some point.

Would it have been as early as the fifth generation without Nintendo, though? The commonly told history of PlayStation says that the executives at Sony had no interest in gaming in the late 80s and early 90s, and they only agreed to the Play Station deal because of Ken Kutaragi's work on the SNES sound chip. When that fell through, they continued in order to spite Nintendo. In some alternate universe without Nintendo, could a console not developed under the circumstances that we know really be called "PlayStation"? It would have a different controller, since they ran with the SNES design. It would have different games, since Nintendo's groundbreaking software basically led the industry in the 3rd and 4th generations. It would have a different identity and most likely a different name.



Around the Network
AlfredoTurkey on 15 January 2016
shenlong213 said:
Airaku said:

 

 


It would suck and probably not be the same. And no. We would NOT have Sony because they joined the industry in partnership with Nintendo. The PlayStation was a joint project and an add-on for the Super Nintendo. Which Nintendo abandoned because it was not "good nor powerful enough" to fit their visions. They dropped it and Sony finished it. Huge mistake on Nintendo's part. Could you imagine a world where Nintendo and Sony were still together today? Crazy!


As for Microsoft. The MSX may have done a bit better and been successful... maybe not but PC gaming would have still evolved. Sega would probably still try, but may have backed out. Then again would Sega have made the Master System if it wasn't for the NES?

 


Like you said, without Nintendo, then we don't have Playstation, maybe even Xbox and PC games

Right but without Atari 2600, we don't have Nintendo. After all, they created the business model that Nintendo would both follow and ultimately learn from. And if you want to keep going, you could come up with earlier examples. 

The truth is, everyone learned from someone before them and improved on an idea. To find the true "first" gaming device, you'd have to go back to  the first caveman rolling a rock around for amusement lol





shenlong213 on 15 January 2016
AlfredoTurkey said:
shenlong213 said:

 


Like you said, without Nintendo, then we don't have Playstation, maybe even Xbox and PC games

Right but without Atari 2600, we don't have Nintendo. After all, they created the business model that Nintendo would both follow and ultimately learn from. And if you want to keep going, you could come up with earlier examples. 

The truth is, everyone learned from someone before them and improved on an idea. To find the true "first" gaming device, you'd have to go back to  the first caveman rolling a rock around for amusement lol

 


Atari was one of the creators who created the business model

But Nintendo was who innovation it, made it become one of the fastest growing industries in the world

Without Nintendo, video game idustry would be destroyed in 1983 and heavily affected so no company will take the risk to invest in it



 

NNID : ShenlongDK
PSN : DarkLong213
Mr Puggsly on 15 January 2016

I think the way Nintendo did console gaming was a step in a much needed direction, but I don't think the industry would have crumbled without them.

Nintendo wasn't the only company putting out notable games in the 80s.



Recently Completed: 
River City: Rival Showdown for 3DS (3/5) - River City: Tokyo Rumble for 3DS (4/5) - Zelda: BotW for Wii U (5/5) - Zelda: BotW for Switch (5/5) - Zelda: Link's Awakening for Switch (4/5) - Rage 2 for X1X (4/5) - Rage for 360 (3/5) - Streets of Rage 4 for X1/PC (4/5) - Gears 5 for X1X (5/5) - Mortal Kombat 11 for X1X (5/5) - Doom 64 for N64 (emulator) (3/5) - Crackdown 3 for X1S/X1X (4/5) - Infinity Blade III - for iPad 4 (3/5) - Infinity Blade II - for iPad 4 (4/5) - Infinity Blade - for iPad 4 (4/5) - Wolfenstein: The Old Blood for X1 (3/5) - Assassin's Creed: Origins for X1 (3/5) - Uncharted: Lost Legacy for PS4 (4/5) - EA UFC 3 for X1 (4/5) - Doom for X1 (4/5) - Titanfall 2 for X1 (4/5) - Super Mario 3D World for Wii U (4/5) - South Park: The Stick of Truth for X1 BC (4/5) - Call of Duty: WWII for X1 (4/5) -Wolfenstein II for X1 - (4/5) - Dead or Alive: Dimensions for 3DS (4/5) - Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite for X1 (3/5) - Halo Wars 2 for X1/PC (4/5) - Halo Wars: DE for X1 (4/5) - Tekken 7 for X1 (4/5) - Injustice 2 for X1 (4/5) - Yakuza 5 for PS3 (3/5) - Battlefield 1 (Campaign) for X1 (3/5) - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate for X1 (4/5) - Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare for X1 (4/5) - Call of Duty: MW Remastered for X1 (4/5) - Donkey Kong Country Returns for 3DS (4/5) - Forza Horizon 3 for X1 (5/5)

ktay95 on 15 January 2016
Ultrashroomz said:
I wonder what Universe #388814 me is doing right now, probably saluting to Phil Spencer as we speak.

Idiot, Phil Spencer was never born in that universe





Lawlight on 15 January 2016
StarDoor said:

 

Would it have been as early as the fifth generation without Nintendo, though? The commonly told history of PlayStation says that the executives at Sony had no interest in gaming in the late 80s and early 90s, and they only agreed to the Play Station deal because of Ken Kutaragi's work on the SNES sound chip. When that fell through, they continued in order to spite Nintendo. In some alternate universe without Nintendo, could a console not developed under the circumstances that we know really be called "PlayStation"? It would have a different controller, since they ran with the SNES design. It would have different games, since Nintendo's groundbreaking software basically led the industry in the 3rd and 4th generations. It would have a different identity and most likely a different name.

 

Maybe it wouldn't have been as early as that. Hard to say what might or might not have happened.

Don't know about ground breaking software in the 3rd or 4th gens from Nintendo. The ones that I care about from those gens are from Squaresoft and Sega.

I'd say Sega influenced Sony more than Nintendo. But yeah, if the PS wasn't created, the industry would have been very different - most likely dead.