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Message: [QUOTE="Clippy, post: 31236, member: 8560"] The world wouldn't change much at all. American console manufacturers were inconsequential outside North America. Perhaps we would've seen a few more minor players like Vectrex or Fairchild but all of that would've died in the 90s at the latest just like 3DO and CDi did. More serious hardware manufacturers like Atari and Commodore survived the crash and limped along until the mid-90s before their attempts at selling outdated and underpowered hardware finally did them in. Commodore kept trying to get into the console market by re-badging their old stock of computers and removing keyboards. It went so far that they sold one of their 'consoles' with a pack-in game that required you to press enter to get into the menu which is hilarious af in hindsight. Atari could've shipped the 5200 about 2 years earlier than they did if they hadn't shafted the design team who proceeded to sue them and get an injunction until they got what they were owed iirc. The crash got the minor players. The bigger players did themselves in. Same could be said for N-word and Sega in the 90s. Sega died to the infighting and other numerous bad decisions while the N-word's draconian policies that brought them success in the mid-80s and early 90s also made sure that everyone jumped ship as soon as a viable competitor (Playstation) showed up because everyone was done with their crap. They survived the same way Atari did in the 80s - they had huge stockpiles of cash and as far as I'm concerned it took them until Switch to recover as a serious gaming platform and even that happened only because both Microsoft and Sony dropped the ball hard. They would've been stuck as a kiddie/casual console maker if it wasn't for that. [/QUOTE]

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