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Hi this is my first alternate history timeline, so writing tips and constructive criticism is appreciated. Plus there aren't a lot of “Nintendo buys Sega in the 2000s' ' timelines out there. Inspiration came from Player Two Start by Nivrk and RySenkari and Burying the Hatchet by Gaminguy010, and...

We all know the classic titles of Nintendo and the legacy of their characters that have persisted throughout the video game industry. But what if Nintendo instead pursued a different venture. What if Nintendo followed through the manga and anime business? 1970: Nintendo, a small playing card...

In 1989, Ken Kutaragi got his daughter a Famicom and realized the potential that existed with video games. He contacted Nintendo when discovering they needed help designing the sound chip for the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo) called the SPC700; however, Kutaragi did this without the knowledge...

The year was 1995 and Toshiba had the DVD killed in a bid to allow Nintendo to use Super Density Discs and Sony Multi Media CDs. Microsoft Games was new to the scene of video games and had some games published under its belt such as Flight Simulator. Rumors were floating around if Microsoft...

Just like the mockumentary Nothing So Strange what would happen if Bill Gates was murdered in 1999?

It is the year 1992 and Mario Paint is selling the SNES Mouse like hotcakes. That is when Hiroshi Yamaouchi comes up with a new idea to bring advanced hardware to Nintendo's platforms. Why not bring the company Microsoft on board to develop hardware technology to help compete with Sega and Sony...

In the 1990s, it seemed like RISC CPUs would displace x86. For several reasons, however, this future never really happened, although in embedded devices ARM has easily won and is even now competing against x86 on the desktop. So, what if x86 didn't completely fend off the various RISC platforms...

I’ve seen plenty of Nintendo-Sony team-up TLs, some Sega-Microsoft TLs and a couple of Nintendo-Microsoft TLs, but not a single Sony-Microsoft TL. It’s known that before the public announcement of the PlayStation 2, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates approached Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei about wanting Sony...

Hello everyone. My name is Zero_to_Hero. And today I am here to talk about a ‘what if’ scenario. What if Gravity Falls and The Owl House debuted as video game franchises in 1999 and 2000? I made those fanfics on both AO3 and Tapas. In those, I explain the full details on what those had been like...

So, your challenge here is to have Microsoft enter the console market at a plausible date earlier than 2001.

New thread about possible windows versions Windows 5 and Windows 6 https://www.deviantart.com/kazumikikuchi/art/BootScreens-of-Windows-5-and-Windows-6-659527803

What if Microsoft buys Yahoo and purchases Vaio from Sony, I think this would be better than the purchases of Nokia and Skype.

Y’all remember that one thing in E3 2013 with that one Xbox One announcement, right? Well, it has gone through an overly negative reception because of that, but since Microsoft changed the Xbox One up a bit before release, it started to slowly improve, and of course, did it sell so well? That’s...

[It's an idea by @The Gamer Sunflower.] We all know how Sega became a third-party developer and publisher back in 2002. Right now, the console developers are always Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. However, what if Nintendo and SEGA BOTH become third party developers and publishers back in 2002...

In regards to the still fairly recent news about Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda, I decided to make a post asking about the specific idea above. In the early 2000s, Sega and its Dreamcast was on the way out and Microsoft and their Xbox was on the way in. Both companies were fairly close...

As of last month Windows had an 86% market share of computer OS's (OSes, OSs??), with OSX in a distant second, and as far as I can tell, that's been the case for a very long time. How possible is it for Linux to rival Windows in the PC market by today? I'd imagine something would have to happen...

I was thinking if Microsoft establishes a Tablet line growing up to a PC line in the 00s with Windows XP as the forefront, Microsoft would be forced to accept OS competition like BEOS, but this needs for MS not to hire Ballmer as head and someone else instead.

From what I was reading Encarta has similarities with the current HTML standards, what if Microsoft was able to implement it (this is what they planned on Cairo but failed to deliver) and put it on the internet as they have planned it, would this Microsoft 'HTML' rival merge with HTML like what...

This was a weird idea I got, but what if rather then merge with Sammy, what if Microsoft bought SEGA and thus Sonic and the other SEGA characters became xBox exclusives? Maybe around 2004 this would happen. I’d have no idea what could prompt this, but maybe Sony buying RARE after Microsoft...

What would Internet look like today? Where would giants like Youtube, Google, Facebook, etc. stand today? Would general user experience on the Internet be better or worse? What about privacy protection issues?