What alternate timeline in gaming history would you want to see?

[Keruneko]

For me personally, I would love to see the timeline where the Dreamcast didn't die and Sega kept making consoles after it. I know that's a bit cliche, but as a Sega fan its something I've thought about for years lol.

But what's an alternate timeline that you would want to see?

 

[miles]

The timeline where the Dreamcast was a success.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

What happened if Sony and Nintendo did make a that Nintendo add on snes what will be like today Mario and Crash Bandicoot.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Nintendo buying Rare

 

[Scotty]

What happened if Sony and Nintendo did make a that Nintendo add on snes what will be like today Mario and Crash Bandicoot.

Damn, I was just about to say this lol!

 

[Keruneko]

The timeline where the Dreamcast was a success.

The Dreamcast will always be a success in my heart

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What happened if Sony and Nintendo did make a that Nintendo add on snes what will be like today Mario and Crash Bandicoot.

I think about this too sometimes. I wonder what games would have came out for it.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

The Dreamcast sells super well and becomes SEGA's springboard for console manufacturing.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

The timeline where Vanilla Ninja Gaiden 3 and Yaiba didn't get made (Razor's Edge can stay) and put the franchise in hibernation and we instead got numerous great NG games over the last decade.

Heck, lot's of franchises where the game that killed them never happened.

 

[yourdemise]

One where Nintendo supports fan projects instead of killing them, the same for other companies in general.

 

[garbodorman]

timeline where Kouji Okada and Satomi Tadashi never left Atlus and they keep making Megaten games with Kazuma Kaneko as the artist.
and the timeline where Metroidvania never happen.
and the timeline where all Digimon are Digital Monsters, not Digital Cosplayer or some kind of jagged shining armored shit.

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

The timeline where Reagan-era American executives won and Pikachu was turned into a Cat-lady with tits for the western release of the og Pòkemon

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Sega sega sega, yap yap yap.

A timeline were we got games being made for fun instead of focusing on making "Hollywood big budget games with zero effort or life" something Yamauchi said back in 1999

 

[Frickinfrik]

The timeline where live service games didn’t plague the market.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

A time where SEGA whooped Nintendo’s butt so hard that it went under and their IPs are being split up by SEGA and Sony. Microsoft never entered the console wars and focused on making powerful and problem free PCs.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

The timeline where we get Scalebound or Unsung Story is actually completed to a faithful spiritual successor spawning more spiritual successor that deliver and didn't run off with your money. One where proper preservation laws are in place and for archiving that infringement can't be used as a challenge it's removal. And one where Otomate abandons the consoles for PC glory and gets wider exposure to the western audience spawning more fan translations that the VN genre gets a faster head start to the western market than a minor niche that never takes advantage of the desperate fanbase throwing money on gacha heavy mobile ones that tapped into the mine first.

 

[Stare best girl]

in a timeline where Saturn was a success outside of Japan and the devs started to understand better Saturn's complex architecture making games that look better on Saturn than PS1, PC and even N64

oh, and a timeline where Sega decided to not make Panzer Dragoon Orta, Crazy Taxi 3, GunValkyrie, Jet Set Radio Future and other games as OG Xbox exclusives instead, made Dreamcast, Gamecube and PC versions too

 

[pingugaming]

it would have been cool to live in a parallel universe where cpu and gpu manufacturers kept going past the 90s/early 2000s. imagine building a pc with a 8 core/16 threads cyrix cpu and combine it with a high range 3DFX Voodoo with like 20gb of gddr6 vram or somethin, with the latest and greatest implementation of the glide api, of course

 

[PlayerJuan]

I'm intrigued about a world where the PS1 fails and gaming possibly doesn't enter the mainstream and what the repercussions would be

 

[Stare best girl]

A time where SEGA whooped Nintendo’s butt so hard that it went under and their IPs are being split up by SEGA and Sony. Microsoft never entered the console wars and focused on making powerful and problem free PCs.

I have a better idea, a timeline where that shitty ass rivalry never happen like in Japan