video game consoles

Yamauchi, head Preisdent of Nintendo, has one request to those running the company: Make Nintendo the best it can ever be. To do this Yamauchi instructed his company to further expand into game development by investing profits into Nintendo itself to ensure growth. As long as profits were good...

The year is 1996 and Ubisoft is looking for investors to donate to its growth. Knowing they could use a developer to further their grip in Europe alongside Rare the Big N decides to invest into the company. A start up company like this would be going places; especially, after hearing of...

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

So, your challenge here is to have Sega stay in the console market to this day without ASBs.

So, what if the video game crash of 1983 never happened? How would that happen without ASBs? Would companies like Nintendo and Sega still enter the console market? What would the gaming industry look like as of now without the video game crash of 1983 ever happening?

The Sega Saturn is a home video game console developed by Sega and released in 1994 in Japan and 1995 in both North America and Europe as the fifth-generation successor to the Sega Mega Drive (or the Sega Genesis in North America). It was a success in Japan, with it having sold 5.75 million...

I'm sure that most of us know about Sony. Founded in 1946 in Japan, it's one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic products, one of the world's largest music companies, one of the world's largest film studios, making it one of the most comprehensive media companies. Sony first...

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...

I'm sure that most of us know about the Nintendo Switch. It's a hybrid console that was released in 2017 after the failure of the Wii U and has since became a success, with it and the Nintendo Switch Lite having sold more than 89 million units worldwide. So, what if the Nintendo Switch was a...

We all know the Master System, right? Its a 8-bit home video game console released by Sega in 1985 to compete with the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was a success in Europe and Brazil with the Master System's lifespan still going on in the latter country. However, it was a failure in Japan...

We all know the Virtual Boy, a 32-bit tabletop portable video game console from Nintendo released in 1995. It was a critical and commercial failure, for its high price, monochrome display, unimpressive stereoscopic effect, lack of true portability and health concerns, therefore earning its place...

Okay, so I was looking at fake game ideas and stuff when I came across this page for a fake Super Mario Bros. CD game on the non-existent NES-CD, which got me thinking about doing a TL where CD add-ons for consoles were made one generation earlier. How would CD add-ons for 8-bit consoles like...

We all know that back in the day, Sega was Nintendo’s rival and in our current day, Sega is Nintendo’s friend. However, I was thinking of making a timeline where Nintendo and Sega work together on consoles and such since around the 1980’s, but how can I create such a TL without ASB?