/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7269098]

Sega gets a Nintendo license back in 1983 instead of making their own system; What changes?

[Anonymous No.7269107]

I don't want to live in a world without Blast Processing

[Anonymous No.7269110]

>>7269107
But about a world without Sonic and that Opa Opa is Sega's mascot?

[Anonymous No.7269117]

>>7269098
Nintendo finally gets some games with SOUL

[Anonymous No.7269121]

>>7269117
They always had soul.

[Anonymous No.7269134]

>>7269121
L O L

[Anonymous No.7269224]

We'd be stuck with the shit version of Aladdin.

[Anonymous No.7269242]

>>7269224
It's not shit, just interior.

[Anonymous No.7269252]

>>7269098
Nintendo finds more success in Europe with the NES and SNES, but still probably finds a way to fuck things up.
PS1 still dominates 5th gen.
PS2 still dominates 6th gen.
Sega ends up in the same place they are now.

[Anonymous No.7269261]

>>7269252
Sony has never dominated a gen. The only metric that matters is game quality and Sony has always been in last place.

[Anonymous No.7269285]

>>7269252
Pretty much.
Also Microsoft still buys Rare.

[Anonymous No.7269312]

>>7269261
>The only metric that matters is game quality
No the only metric is the amount of people that buy your system nothing else matters. The bigger the install base the bigger support of a variety of devs and genres. You can COPE all you want about Sony but it had the variety no other system had.

[Anonymous No.7269318]

>>7269312
A wide variety of shit games.

[Anonymous No.7269358]

>>7269098
no one ever invents the 6 button controller layout

[Anonymous No.7269369]

>>7269358
Capcom still does for arcades.

[Anonymous No.7269421]

>>7269318
As opposed to Nintendo's lacking variety with shit games to boot?

[Anonymous No.7269428]

>>7269421
Those games are not shit, you're thinking of Color Dreams.

[Anonymous No.7269539]

Assuming everything else is the same, the most obvious thing that changes is that Sega either does not make, or fails to make decent versions of the vast majority of home console games they became known for in the 8-bit and 16-bit generations, as Nintendo's hardware was simply incapable of doing justice to games such as Shinobi, Sonic the Hedgehog, Outrun, Streets of Rage, and so on.
However, it is much more likely that the entire shape of the industry would change dramatically. Consider that Nintendo does not make performant hardware, instead making hardware almost a full generation behind it's competition, this is and always has been their modus operandi. The PS2 and xBox, with better SIMD capabilities, more general purpose RAM, and larger disc capacities, allowed for better particle effects, lighting, and resolution than what the GameCube was capable of. The PS1 and Saturn did not suffer from a bottlenecked texture cache, or incredibly latent RAM, which allowed games to have higher quality visuals at a faster framerate than the 2 years newer N64. The SNES ran at a mere 1/3rd the speed of all it's major competitors, which lead to games being plagued with slowdowns and a general slow pace and lack of action. The stock NES was essentially a very slightly improved ColecoVision, requiring expensive expansion chips in nearly every single game in order to even reach the stock capabilities of the C64, much less the Master System. I need not introduce the Wii, Wii U, Switch. As you can see, Nintendo has simply always failed to attempt to advance the state of game console technology, even when given competition, but if one would like an example of what harm Nintendo's dominance could truly have done, one only needs to see how they held back handheld gaming for a decade, absolutely failing to push it forward with any sort of technological advances until the GameBoy Colour, which, even so, was so terribly incremental that even the Game Gear had advantages over it.

[Anonymous No.7269541]

>>7269539
It was not until Sony came along that we would correct course and see just how chasmic the gap was between where technology was, with the relatively unimpressive DS, and where it could be, with the PSP almost seeming to be an entire generation ahead, despite launching in the same year. Had Nintendo not had the competition of Sega's performant hardware to contend with, it is quite possible we would have been in the exact same scenario with home consoles, latching onto the already dated and shoddy NES hardware for many more years before being given an equally underwhelming 16-bit offering. Indeed, it was Sega that nudged Nintendo into making the SNES, and it was fear of success of the Sega CD and PC Engine CD add-ons that nudged Nintendo into making a deal with Sony for the failed SNES CD, so in a sense, although the real thanks goes to Sony for saving the gaming industry from Nintendo's shoddy hardware and terrible licensing deals, an indirect credit can go to Sega for kickstarting the whole thing.
tl;dr, consoles would still be N64 quality. No thank you.

[Anonymous No.7269752]

>>7269098
Nintendo proceeds to roflstomp the competition (less because of Sega's games and more because of the inexistence of the Mega Drive {due to that, the Playstation would probably never come to be}) and become unchallenged until Microsoft tries its hand at videogames, with the Xbox becoming a modest second place. Overall, it would most likely have been better for everyone but Sony, even Sega, which would probably still be a strong developer to this day, had they dropped the archaic arcade-like game design philosophy that they had until the end of the Dreamcast (and largely cost them their relevancy) and started developing for home consoles' strenghts

[Anonymous No.7269794]

Is this a piece of alternate history that accidentally passed to our world?

[Anonymous No.7269796]

>>7269098
Is this a piece of alternate history that accidentally crossed over to our world?

[Anonymous No.7269924]

>>7269098
Sega had a Nintendo license until Genesis became a hit. That's why there are Sega games on the NES

[Anonymous No.7271312]

>>7269098
The internet is spared the faggotry of sonic fandom.

[Anonymous No.7271486]

>>7269924
Sega didn't make those ports themselves.
>>7269796
Sunsoft made that port.

[Anonymous No.7271492]

>>7269121
Modern Nintendo is soulless

[Anonymous No.7271517]

>>7271492
They have soul, Odyssey is proof of this.
>>7269539
The Super NES would of been faster as the PC-Engine was made because Nintendo rejected Hudson's chip set as they were making their own 16-bit system.

The N64 would of used a shared SDRam under a 64-bit bus or around 620MBs.

The NES through Mapper 0 can do more then the C64, even in this timeline.
>>7269541
Consoles will not be N64 quality, we will still get PS5 and XBSX tire systems.

[Anonymous No.7271523]

>>7271517
>They have soul, Odyssey is proof of this.
lmao

[Anonymous No.7271527]

>>7271523
No, it's true.
>I never played Super Mario Odyssey.

[Anonymous No.7272605]

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