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No Square and Enix merger. There is a set of games that more than likely will never be made. Namely the Bravely series, Octopath Traveler, and Project Triangle Strategy. Why? This is because the producer of those games, Tomoya Asano, was originally with Enix before the merger as an assistant...

Nice to see sales are up. Of course it would help if this Nintendo would gain more stable software support from both Japanese and Western devs.

Question, how is the Gamecube faring in Japan? I doubt the massive lead the PS2 has in sales and developer support will be dented in any fashion.

Oh, I'm not disagreeing that if there isn't shortages launch sales have the potential to go higher. I'm questioning the idea there would that much demand to begin with, considering cultural trends and the economy. There would have to be a lot of butterflies in order for consoles to still demand...

Really, 600,000 first week for a console in Japan at that time? Even if there was somehow enough stock, how likely launch numbers would go that high, especially if Japan's economy became stagnant like OTL? Looking at the launches for the PS4, Wii U, and Switch, they've all had opening launches...

Honestly, given the realities of development, focusing on fewer games would be realistic, if you were going to just focus on the big AAA developers. Software output by the big name devs is going to drop significantly, focusing on few hit franchises or certain style of gameplay, depending on what...

In real world news, Nintendo of America announced that Reggie Fils-Amie will be retiring in April. He is to be succeeded by, I kid you not, Doug Bowser. I kinda realized that in this timeline that no mention is made of Nintendo's American leadership in terms of being a well known personality by...

Look at what just got published on Polygon: https://www.polygon.com/2018/11/26/18080492/playstation-history-ken-kutaragi-sony What can you say, the man had ambition.

Never heard of that. From what I read he's an outsider who liked games and just wanted to be a head of a company when growing up. Forumers do like to rag in him for moving the companies' HQ after consulting with a feng shui expert. (And apparently Uematsu became a freelancer because the company...

Who is the head of Square at this time? In OTL around this time Square Enix's head is Yoichi Wada, and the view of gamers is that his time as president things got worse under him. The many spinoffs and assorted number of games stuck in development... at least on the Final Fantasy side of things...

Well, light novels have been a source for anime for some time, like Slayers. And someone just asked about Full Metal Panic, which also of light novel origin. It's just later on the anime fandom will eventually acknowledge this as the years go on, which in OTL has led to even lights novels...

What about his work on Fate/Zero? And the Nasuverse in general? On the lines of otaku targeted franchises/late-night anime, what's going on in the light novel world? OTL around this time in particular, You have the first season of A Certain Magical Index airing Fall 2008 to Spring 2009, then...

Sony just announced they won't be at E3 2019. Probably the first time a major platform holder won't attend. Makes me wonder if E3 will have major shakeups and retools over the next few years. OTL E3 in 2007 and 2008 had the E3 Media and Business Summit and scaled back things, only to revert.

In OTL News, Detective Pikachu, the first live-action Pokémon film, has its first trailer: The question is, how will Sony attempt to take Pokémon in a direction like this ITTL?

Hmmm... I wonder how the hardware handles all that backwards compatibility, considering the OTL PS3 had dropped PS2 compatibility over time and PS1 was emulation. And then you get the PS4, where there's no backwards compatibility at all. At some point things have to switch to some form of...

Well, the previews for the PlayStation Classic are in, and well, it's serviceable. Kotaku, Eurogamer, and Gamespot have all their gripes with it. Speaking of emulation, how are the current generation of consoles handling previous generation games? Software emulation or actual hardware...

I guess PEGI hasn't gotten to rating games with any form of gambling as their T equivalent, even kids games. Considering in the HeartGold/SoulSilver remakes the Game Corner had its slot machines replaced with Voltorb Flip for the international release.

I wonder if Capcom is taking a huge risk going all in on Apple's platforms.

Well, yesterday's Nintendo Direct was interesting. PS1 and PS2 era Final Fantasy games are coming to the Switch (and Xbox One). Of course, fans couldn't help but note one game that was missing, Final Fantasy VIII. It is still only available as an emulated PS1 game on PSN and the original PC...

I wonder what will be the future of expanded universes for individual Final Fantasy installments. Is Takashi Tokita still there? Perhaps he'll get a chance to expand on Final Fantasy IV like he did OTL.