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  1. WI: No Sega 32X?

    Yeah, the Saturn was capable, it just took too much effort. For example, the likes of Fighting Vipers was as good visually as any PlayStation fighter, but by the time they’d figured out how to be that good, it was way too late.

  2. WI: No Sega 32X?

    I’m not sure that was purely a hardware problem, it was just badly done. The Sega Rally port was excellent, so I don’t see any reason as to why Daytona couldn’t have been. Hell, Daytona Championship Circuit Edition was passable. Sega did seem to learn a lot, or improve a lot, between the very...

  3. WI: No Sega 32X?

    There was a 32X console, Neptune, that in the end never launched. It’s worth remembering the Mega CD was actually pretty old by the time the Saturn arrived, at least in Japan. It wasn’t some dying breath add on, though obviously had limited appeal. Though given Nintendo came close to launching...

  4. AHC: Have Naruto flop

    The original pilot manga for it was pretty weird, with Naruto being a fox that could take human form. It was obviously heavily reworked before it actually launched, so just stop that.

  5. WI: No Sega 32X?

    There was a 32X console planned, the Neptune. In the end even Sega saw sense not releasing it. The CD was out in Japan years before this, so is less of a factor. You’d also need to tackle the weird approach to games at Sega, there were consciously choosing not to make sequels to the big hits...

  6. WI: Mercedes-Benz purchased Jaguar instead of Ford?

    Don’t see why they would. Ford wanted Jaguar because it was a premium brand and they wanted to compete with… Mercedes! Along with BMW and Audi. From Merc’s perspective, taking over a mess (and it’s pretty much always been for decades now) that operates in largely the same market, targeting the...

  7. WI: London Had A Grid System

    Yup, and the numbering wouldn’t be a guarantee. Glasgow in the UK has a grid layout, and it’s all just street names.

  8. WI: London Had A Grid System

    Yeah, having not grown up in a grid based city, I personally don’t find them easier to navigate...

  9. GM sells the Pontiac brand in 2009

    Ultimately, the way these large scale car groups work, buying any one brand is just that, you’ve bought yourself a name plate. Then, either, you’re going to basically have to licence or buy all the GM wide platforms, engines and other bits and pieces required to make the cars, find another...

  10. Motorsports What Ifs Thread

    2012 Hamilton was pretty unhappy already, in inconsistent form and generally unsettled, remember him crashing into Massa and vaguely accusing the stewards of racism etc. Had he re-signed with Mclaren, then seen them go down the toilet, could definitely have seen him walk away from the sport, go...

  11. Motorsports What Ifs Thread

    Some Formula 1 ideas... • Hamilton stays with Mclaren - Rosberg likely a 4 time champion, depending who was his team mate. Hamilton probably got fed up and left the sport after Mclaren’s decline really kicked in. • Mclaren stays with Honda - rumouredly their choice was to stick with Honda or...

  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    In a TL with such levels of space technology to allow asteroid mining, is gold even that valuable anymore?

  13. The Fatherland - a Nazi victory TL

    I see what you did there...

  14. Wingless F1?

    Wings being the dominant source of downforce in F1 is more recent. Not that long ago we had ground effect cars, until of course that was deemed unsafe enough to cut back on. The current approach to aero is, really, about 10 years old, since CFD and improvements in carbon fibre manufacturing led...

  15. George W. Bush's Presidency Without 9/11

    Stopping the attacks so near to being carried out would still be a big deal, wouldn’t it? If the captured terrorists confessed what they were planning, sure it might sound far fetched in that timeline, but I could definitely see it being spun into a reason to do *something* in Afghanistan at...

  16. WI Netherlands win the 2010 WC final?

    Might make Holland’s decline even worse, since the actual trophy is even better for masking their issues than reaching the final. History probably comes to view that Spain side as being one that ‘should’ have won, much like Cryff’s Holland.

  17. AHC: Have a country achive a average lifespan numbering triple digits

    Or all that increased demand for resources ramps up pollution, uses up fresh water, speeds up climate change and sparks conflicts...

  18. WI:Blair steps down earlier

    The ‘Credit Crunch’ would likely have doomed Labour to defeat eventually, regardless of leader. 10 plus years in power ending in a pretty brutal recession is going to make a Tory victory (of sorts) all but inevitable. To keep them around longer, going to have to butterfly away that crash, at...

  19. Is a combination of ancient aesthetics with advanced technology plausible in OTL?

    The Tok’ra were essentially on the run, and needed to be able to blend in with the cultures on planets that the Goa’uld dominated. Cultures that their hosts also came from. I’m not sure that their use of ‘primitive’ tech was a choice, it was a necessity. And like the Goa’uld, what tech they did...

  20. WI worst 2008 recession

    To be fair, Lloyds were basically asked / told by the government to rescue HBOS. ABN-Amro was entirely RBS’ fault though!
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