davyK wrote:If Atari had done a US distribution deal with Nintendo (Which Nintendo suggested) there's a real chance they would still be around in a real sense as a software developer. If Saturn played Megadrive carts - but only if they hadn't pissed all that money and trust away on the those damn addons. The Sony/Nintendo deal: I don't think would have been successful - the console would have been a compromise. No Playstation = a bad thing. And yeah - Dreamcast with a DVD drive. Might have helped but Sega had pissed too much money away by then.
Blue Swirl wrote:. On the Dreamcast + DVD front, wouldn't it have saved Sega money to use an extant format, rather than creating their own? Plus part of the DC's downfall was the rampant copyright infringement, aided by the GD-ROM system being easier to circumvent than Sega thought it would be.
davyK wrote:Possibly ,though piracy didn't harm the PS1. The PS1 was the console of choice for Pikeys. Re DVD, I suppose Sega didn't want to pay licences to Sony for DVD but it was a wrong move.
Time_on_my_hands wrote:If Sony hadn't been a thing and the market had remained Nintendo vs Sega, would the Xbox even be a thing? I like to think that Atari would still be in the game if they hadn't messed up with the lack of availability of Jaguars at launch.
poprock wrote:What if Sony did use the PlayStation as the hub of connected home entertainment - console, TV and hi-fi all hooked up to broadband. Would they have dominated gaming completely?
poprock wrote:It’s interesting how many brands have aimed at that ‘one box under the TV to rule them all’ model over the years, when in the end the TV itself has swallowed the role up. You’d think we would all have seen that coming a mile off. Consoles are the only secondary input left and I wonder how long they can last with cloud gaming on the horizon. It can’t be long until Xbox becomes an app on your smart TV.
Time_on_my_hands wrote:Or was the development of analogue sticks for consoles inevitable given the rise of 3D games at this time?
Time_on_my_hands wrote:Okay - so my knowledge of console controlers is patchy, but what if the N64 analogue stick hadn't existed, and therefore the PS1 controller had remained face-buttons only? Would mice have been more widely adopted for consoles?
Or was the development of analogue sticks for consoles inevitable given the rise of 3D games at this time?
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