I’ve had ideas of a console war timeline where Nintendo is more competitive towards Sega and Sony, releasing a 16-bit successor to the Famicom/NES in the late 80’s, allowing games like Mortal Kombat to be released uncensored with blood and gore, releasing a disc-based 32-bit console capable of 3D graphics in 1994, etc., with Sega also staying in the console market. How can I create such a TL without ASB?
AHC: Different console war
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Part of the reason why Nintendo had such heavy censorship was a reaction to the video game crash of 1983. Sega being more popular in Europe than North America where the crash mainly happened allowed for more lax restrictions due to it's greater focus in Europe. You would need Nintendo to be equally popular in Europe as Sega for that to happen.
Advertising. Europe was Nintendo's missed chance in the 80s. Sega beat Nintendo to the advertising game first in Europe and that's why they held the market for the 80s and early 90s. Nintendo decided to pour it's attention in North America where it dominated against Sega with it's platform exclusivity policy with developers.
Is it possible for Nintendo to release a 16-bit successor to the Famicom/NES around 1988?
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No, way too early. Bad for business, They do have the technology, but 1988 is only 3 years away from the NES. Not good for business
Well, maybe Nintendo can keep supporting the NES until around 1995 and port some of its 16-bit games to the NES, so yay or nay?
Is it possible for Silicon Graphics to work on both Nintendo and Sega’s 32-bit consoles at the same time?
Why not, AMD supplied both Sony and Microsoft for PS5 and Xbox Series X
Is late-1994 a good time for the Nintendo 32 (known as the Nintendo 64 IOTL) to be released?
SGI wasn't a good partner at all when their chips were ok, their PSB(ie motherboard) design where a headache for Nintendo, that is why they drop them as fast they could, NEC, Hitachi, Motorola could have worked better on that regard.
SGI never worked on Sega Saturn at all, those where Hitachi CPU and Some custom SEGA VDP, SGI never worked with SEGA at all
If they like their GPU, they could take it, unironically that would be closer to the idea yu Suzuki have for a 3D console (NEC CPU, custom gpu and DSP/VDP) plus Sega might just took the chip and do the board themselves, but we need to avoid nakayama helping his friend in Hitachi
Would Nintendo have certain games like Mortal Kombat censored for release on the Nintendo Super-16 Entertainment System like OTL or would Nintendo leave those games uncensored with blood and gore and stuff for release on the NS-16ES?
Remember something, when Nintendo entered the USA they've to face off a dead market with the reagan neoconservative moral majority being a full force, add the japan bashing meaning they decide to play safe to avoid getting scandals(there zero coincidences they have a lawyer as their CEO at the time), unless we got an ERSB far earlier that OTL, Nintendo would play overtly safe, if we got an early ERSB, we could see them leaving it to the ERSB equivalent them.
Which name do you think would be better for TTL’s 128-bit Nintendo console?
A. Nintendo 128 (to act as a follow-up to TTL’s Nintendo 32, like with TTL’s Sega Neptune following Sega Saturn and PlayStation 2 following PlayStation)
B. Nintendo Squared
C. Nintendo Qube
D. Nintendo Q
A. Nintendo 128 (to act as a follow-up to TTL’s Nintendo 32, like with TTL’s Sega Neptune following Sega Saturn and PlayStation 2 following PlayStation)
B. Nintendo Squared
C. Nintendo Qube
D. Nintendo Q
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