AHC: Make Sonic the Hedgehog a Nintendo franchise.

How could the videogame Sonic the Hedgehog become a Nintendo franchise as opposed to Sega? If this is ASB, I apologize :p
 

d32123

Banned
My thoughts exactly.

I mean what creeps me out to this day is that a guy who was a regular commenter and helped me out on one of my timelines AND was actually relatively knowledgeable about Missouri politics turned out to be him.
 
I mean what creeps me out to this day is that a guy who was a regular commenter and helped me out on one of my timelines AND was actually relatively knowledgeable about Missouri politics turned out to be him.

What? who? masteraccount has mental development issues, soy guess is that that account wasn't his.
 

d32123

Banned
What? who? masteraccount has mental development issues, soy guess is that that account wasn't his.

Perhaps it was just an imposter but the guy (AStanley) got banned for posting Sonic the Hedgehog garbage and we all just assumed he was masteraccount.
 
If Sonic was a Nintendo franchise from the get go, what would that mean for Sega and Mario. Well Sega would be out of a mascot and it's well known franchise, but would that result in direct competition between Sonic and Mario games. I'm rather new, but who is masteraccount?
 
How could the videogame Sonic the Hedgehog become a Nintendo franchise as opposed to Sega? If this is ASB, I apologize :p

I'll take a crack at it.

Sega and Nintendo, for most of their history, were engaged in a struggle for video game dominance. Well, not really, that implies that Sega was actually a threat to Nintendo, which it wasn't.

But Sega and Nintendo competed for market share. Around the time Sega came out with Sonic the Hedgehog -ironically- was the time that her days were numbered {for reasons unrelated to Sonic}. Nintendo was killing it slowly for years; Sony delivered the mortal blow with the PS2.

What then happened is Sega clung on to life long enough to find someone to buy the company. At this point Sega was on the verge of dissolution and partition between various game companies. The interesting thing is that none of those companies were called Nintendo. As Nintendo seemed completely uninterested in buying up Sega or its licences.

This has a lot to do with the fact that Sega has previously announced it would become a third-party company; Nintendo probably didn't see the need to buy Sega and probably didn't want another mascot when it already had Mario.

So, to change this you need three things, I think. One is for Sonic to be less of a household name so it won't be as awkward to see him as a major Nintendo franchise. Two, dissuade Sega from offering its services as a third-party company, so Nintendo might see a reason to take Sonic for itself. Three, make Sega more destitute than she already was, so that Sega would even consider selling Sonic.

Two and Three kind of conflict, however.
 
Perhaps it was just an imposter but the guy (AStanley) got banned for posting Sonic the Hedgehog garbage and we all just assumed he was masteraccount.

Wait... what? The more I read about some of the characters on here, the weirder it gets.

I mean, obsessive discussion of 'what if Nazis or Confederates won?'. I get that I guess.

Extreme fondness for the Byzantine Empire? Sure, why not.

The occasional nut who brings up nationalist beefs? Eh, not surprising unfortunately.

But a guy who makes multiple accounts to post about Sonic the Hedgehog-related Alternate History? That's how i know i'm in the right place.
 

Thande

Donor
What's with Sonic the Hedgehog and alternate history?

Same thing with the Byzantine Empire or the CSA: a romanticism-inducing entity that ended in failure when it had so much potential, of course it's going to be an AH magnet.

Anyway, it's possible that Sega's franchises could have passed to Nintendo at some point after Sega exited the console market and started working closely with Nintendo. Obviously this could not be the case from the start, though. Sonic was deliberately and specifically designed by the Americans to be a Nintendo-killer, and for some years in the early nineties the franchise looked to be doing just that before everything went to hell in the Saturn era.
 
I feel a great disturbance in the interwebz :eek: I honestly have no idea what this business is, I'm just a big Sonic fan.
 
Actually this is very easy. Sonic creator had a Famicom as a kid, and liked a lot the Mario´s so instead of trying ( and succeeding ) to enter in Sega, he tries at Nintendo.
 
Follow our TL. Because it is currently a Nintendo franchise.

Not really. For the most part the main series games are multi platform, and the most recent one (Generations) skipped the Wii, although a 3DS version was produced.

Actually this is very easy. Sonic creator had a Famicom as a kid, and liked a lot the Mario´s so instead of trying ( and succeeding ) to enter in Sega, he tries at Nintendo.

Naka or Oshima? Because if Naka, he didn't create the character; he was a programmer. Although if Naka, you might get the ironic situation in such an ATL of Naka eventually leading the development of, say, alt-Super Mario Sunshine or alt-Super Mario Galaxy. And Sonic was designed specifically as a flagship character for Sega in western markets to compete with Mario, which for obvious reasons Nintendo doesn't need. And even if Oshima went to Nintendo and somehow designed Sonic, he was apparently originally teal and was only changed to blue to match Sega's logo.
 
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