Capcom was always Multi and loved Saturn being comparable to arcades, Square was moneyhatted but even they never like sega....dunno..must have been phantasy star
AHC: Have Sony outright lose the 90s Console War
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Keeping stuff like Final Fantasy VII or Darkstalkers off the Playstation though will hurt Sony badly though
Yeah Sega would get all the arcade ports easily and Nintendo the RPG(maybe tuned the N64 to be more RPG friendly as Nintendo tuned the SNES for that purpose)
FillyofDelphi
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That, or I think it's more likely somebody else (Atari or Namoco, perhaps?) fills the gap left by Sony's failure with an affordable alternative and by the time she tries to re-enter the market theres too much competition for her liking. Sony failing doesn't nessicerily have to result in a biopoly of Sega and Nintendo (which I think wouldn't be stable, and result in a metaphorical fight to the death)
Well, Acording to the untold story of japanese developers Volume 1(this is a plug, i got the book free and is amazing,a must read for understand videogame story from japanese side), seems during 90's, Namco and Konami were planning their own console before Sony got the idea(Seems Namco was to be a 3D based one and Konami a handled one), maybe either company enter the market.
FillyofDelphi
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Very interesting. I did just take a breif look at that Namco plan (the Super system, according to what I read) and it seemed fairly promising if you could get around some of the corperate politics and find a reliable partner who has good hardware production chops. Who might fill such a role though?
Maybe NEC try again? they've the PC-ENGINE who have all the ingredients to triumph just missed the chance to strike gold but dunno if Namco would like to cooperate with Hudson, but if all three work together would be something.
Another would be Hitachi if Sega modified the saturn and they decided to still work on video games, Panasonic/Matsushita if they drop the 3DO or decided to do another thing.
And this http://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/taito/248383/wowow-the-1990s-taito-console-that-never-was
FillyofDelphi
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Dident the plans fall apart precisely because they tried to pursue the project with NEC though? You'd have to shake things up so OTL's deal doesn't collapse. Also... wow. It's amazing once you start looking into all these things just how totally the Japanese dominated the hardware industry in the 80's. No wonder people thought they were on track to take over hegemony!
It'd be interesting to see a non-Japanese firm, just to add a little flavor. But Atari is really the only one I know of that has a chance
Nah when Warner who cared Even if put with bad managers , the company was a rotting zombie and tramiel was Even worse... Well i tried something with Nokia....
Another one would be Motorola or AMD
FillyofDelphi
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You're probably right: it was just the only company I could think of who was involved enough/dedicated enough to gaming hardware development that Namco wouldn't feel like they were taking a complete gamble by tying their name to another company's first go. The issue with alot of the companies you named is, while they make great parts, they are just parts: on the middle rather than end of the consumer supply chain.
The company would also have to not be too tightly wed to the idea of "serious business machines", since there's still at the time a bit of a stigma around video games as childish "toys". This rules out in alot of ways the possability of an IBM, for example, taking a slight pivot in the 80's to prime it for filling the gap. Macintosh is also out the window I think, though more on the grounds that they liked doing their own software and would probably be hesitant to do a major corperate collaberation...
Yeah but Making parts is vital and would keep tech cost ratio very balanced, you need one with muscle and willingness, still namco would get a Lot of choices in that front
FillyofDelphi
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It certainly is important, but getting into the console business is a very capital-intensive Gambit. Would Namco be willing to take the risk of making that partnership, knowing this would be their partner's first go at building a fully integrated machine in house?
Truly a dystopia. Without Sony as a console player, there'd be no sony golden wojack anal vore on /v/. A world worse than FAT.
If Sony fail, the race is now Sega and Nintendo and some third parties will gravitated either company(Arcade maker for Sega, RPG Makers for nintendo and so on) with exclusives and we might see more exclusive game generations coming forward too
SEGA of America would still have Berine Stolar, which will make things much harder for SEGA.