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11125779 No.11125779 [Reply] [Original]

Let's say Mario 64 got delayed for 1999 and was released just before Sonic Adventure. The game is still on Nintendo 64, but three more years allowed the developers to make the game better and add more features. Like Luigi.

How would people receive it?

>> No.11125794 [DELETED] 

>>11125779
>oh look it's another hypothetical "what if" post that will inevitably devolve in to shit posting and meaningless arguments
sage in all fields fpbp /thread

>> No.11125821

>>11125794
>that will inevitably devolve in to shit posting and meaningless arguments

So, just like any 4chan thread?

>> No.11125837
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>>11125779
If Nintendo treated the N64 like SEGA treated the Saturn, there would be no Mario game until 1999, we would maybe just have Yoshi's Story, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat games, a straight port of Super Mario All-Stars + World, and maybe Mario Kart and a few other racing titles. The real question is whether we would have Banjo and DK64 or not, since those didn't come out until later anyway. It would make fifth gen even if this happened imo, and both consoles had issues to begin with.

On the flip side, if it was still released on the N64 in 1999, it may have meant bigger worlds, nicer lighting effects, and better textures + character models, maybe a bit closer to something like Super Mario 64 DS.

>> No.11125838

>>11125779
Mario 64 is already considered to be among the best 3D platformer

>> No.11125840

>>11125837
Meant to say it would make fifth gen even worse*

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>>11125779
This would've seriously damaged N64 and Nintendo since it launched with very few games. Recall that PS1 was already out and gaining traction.
No effect on Sega, they were doomed anyway.

>> No.11126387

If the N64 launched without Mario 64 it would have been discontinued before 1999 rolled around.

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>What if thread

>> No.11126478

>>11125837
Kinda sounds like how they treated the GameCube

>> No.11126510

>>11126478
GameCube had plenty of Mario games though