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

[nobitakun]

Squaresoft released Final Fantasy and didn't sell well, then they died.

Also, COVID took over population and killed all people that censored / tried to censor videogames in any way.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

A timeline where games still had passion

 

[Bonkers225]

Nintendo not backstabbing Sony and going with Panasonic.

 

[Kamako]

The timeline in which all in-game items can only be unlocked by skilled play and progression. No in-game purchases for anything besides 15+ hour story DLC's.

 

[Stare best girl]

If we're talking industry scale I guess one where the Sega Dreamcast wasn't a failure like others have said. Maybe the Saturn, 32X and Sega-CD disappear in that reality to help things along, who knows.

Smaller scale? I dunno. I guess Valve not stopping making games pretty much entirely and still making bangers every once in a while?

only 32X and maybe Sega CD would disappear, remember that Saturn was a success in Japan that even is the best-selling Sega console and outsold N64

 

[JoueurCitoyen]

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?

Litteraly my dreams every night since 2001

 

[qw90700]

Smaller scale? I dunno. I guess Valve not stopping making games pretty much entirely and still making bangers every once in a while?

Technically Valve only developed Half-Life games and the rest of the games are tweaked versions of Half-Life mods, they bought developers of some games that their sequels are developed by Valve and they used mod ideas from other games lol.

Valve using games as a tool to blow up an aspect of the industry like how they used VR technology and for new games they look for some new ways to use and sell hardwares and stuff. Until then their beloved Steam is enough but recently payment processors kicked the Valve in the balls by refusing to help them sell porn lol.

A week ago I talked with Gabby Oldell (Gabe Newell's nickname between buddies lol) while I was invited to his private ship and he said he wanna invent some payment processor system and its card called "Piston Card" using Web 3.0 technology to convert your real money to digital money, manage your money without a bank and pay whatever you want with absolute anonymity by just sending buy order -> get the item. He was so angry he will have to delay buying a new island just because he can't sell porn stuff now!!! Piston Card will solve your primitive needs!!! True story!!! lolol

 

[pier]

Nintendo not selling Rare.

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

I'd like to see the timeline where DLC and microtransactions were never invented and where games are still not released until they are 100% finished.

 

[Doctor Squats]

I would have loved to see Sega port Daytona 2, Scud Race, Emergency Call Ambulance, and most of their other 2000s era arcade games to Dreamcast.

 

[Matricks]

Where Elon Musk Appears 50yrs earlier, then we'd all be Ready Player Ones...
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[What's His Face]

The timeline where game companies don't treat their consumer base as their enemy.

The timeline where gaming enthusiasts who became video game magazine writers & reporters didn't get pushed out of the niche industry they built.

The timeline where video games stayed a niche hobby.

 

[Questless Knight]

The timeline where game companies don't treat their consumer base as their enemy.

The timeline where gaming enthusiasts who became video game magazine writers & reporters didn't get pushed out of the niche industry they built.

The timeline where video games stayed a niche hobby.

Well that mostly American companies they hate people and they hate money sure you got some Japense ones like Nintendo but that becuse Nintendo got shit for brain and think just because they saved gaming back in the 80s they are still the gods of gaming.

But most Asian companies love their fans hence why we see much much good games from them also thank good they are not brained washed with DEI crap.


Anyway What time line I wish to see is one in which where PC Engine was the dominant console in which NEC still made consoles imagine getting the newest NEC console to play the Newest YS game.

 

[DjQuick2008]

Probably sega making something to rival the PS4 and beyond with loads of their titles like outrun, streets of rage, daytona all making massive comebacks i know we got some of these but sega on a sega console is what im getting at.

 

[qw90700]

The timeline where video games stayed a niche hobby.

Then how the industry would improve and companies wouldn't think "hmm no oppurtinity to make money by it" so video gaming wouldn't die altogether? ¿¿¿How??? lol

This video was recorded from the timeline you wanted and thanks to it I'm a Super Saiyan now lolol:

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Rareware staying with nintendo

 

[Lg42inchtv]

One where the Vita was a success and Sony continued to make handhelds to compete with the Switch and Switch 2

 

[sama_lton]

Ah man, SOOO many to go with...

1: SEGA skipping 32X in favor of a standalone SVP cartridge for Genesis/MegaDrive

2: NEC & Hudson actually redesigning Tetsujin into a capable 3D/2D console with that MJPEG decoding feature instead of the lukewarm PC-FX that actually launched

3: SEGA not rushing Saturn's Western release by several months

4: SEGA not cancelling Saturn versions of Streets of Rage or Eternal Champions

5: FM Towns Marty 2 being an actual spec revision

6: CD32 American shipments not getting held up in customs so Commodore doesn't go bankrupt

7: SEGA maybe actually taking the M2 or the GPU that'd eventually go into Gamecube, delay Dreamcast by a year, add in DVD-ROM support and give Saturn a final year's-worth push

8: Ken Kutaragi never leaves PlayStation

9: Sony never moves PlayStation's headquarters to California

10: Nintendo adds DVD-ROM support to Gamecube as standard

11: Satoru Iwata never passes away

12: Kenji Eno never passes away

13: Akira Toriyama never passes away

14: Microsoft never promotes Phil Spencer to head Xbox. If unable to find a better replacement, then just spin off/sell the Xbox division to an outside company in 2014 like they wanted (or shut it down)

15: Fortnite and PUBG never became popular

16: GTAV never became a massive seller

17: Minecraft never became popular

18: Arcades (REAL arcades) never died off

19: SNK made more realistic specs for Neo Star and released it instead of Neo Geo CD

20: NEC & Hudson made more substantial upgrades to SuperGraphX

21: Atari never cancelled the Panther, and delayed Jaguar by 3 years (so 1996 launch) for better hardware and better software support

A timeline where the Saturn took the PS1's place as the lead 32-bit platform.

Considering what PlayStation's become today? 1,000,000% agreed!

 

[fake-kun]

The one where Mega Man Legends 3 didn't get cancelled.

 

[dropsmegamega]

A timeline where ALL consoles keep failing

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

M2 upgrade to 3DO was released with support from Capcom to have Power Stone as a launch game.

Squaresoft signed a deal to exclusively release Final Fantasy games to Sega (SAT) instead of Sony (PS1).

 

[Isegrim]

A timeline where horse armor in the original Oblivion the Elder Scrolls for XBOX 360 sold 0 and DLC never became popular among publishers. Microsoft never thought of paid online for consoles. Cosmetic DLC was also an utter failure.

 

[Arthxas3]

Not gaming in general but I always wanted to see the timeline where FF Versus XIII was made without any complications. Damn even today when I launch trailers from 2009 it makes me sad that most of this was scrapped and made into FFXV which wasn't that bad but that which makes versus trailers interesting even today was setting and atmosphere.

 

[Sonic Boomer]

SegaCD and 32x are never made and all their games go to the SEGA Saturn even if they don't get visual improvements, this would be amazing.
To this day I can't accept the fact that on my beloved Saturn I can play so many arcade perfect or almost arcade perfect ports, but Final Fight CD isn't on it. Imagine Final Fight CD with that incredible OST on the Saturn. I don't and never had a Sega CD or 32x (I do have mega drives of course) so I would have loved for this to be the case.

 

[Adrastia]

The timeline where the Dreamcast was a success.

I really wanted to see Agartha completed and released.