- Also merging idea 2 in from my inaugural/other post (or coming to the same independently, of course,) is an open question for anybody who might end up fleshing idea 1 from there out, if anybody. Personally, though, I'm of two minds about Sega: on the one hand, it's definitely a shame that they never made any more consoles; on the other, I've enjoyed some of their games on other platforms before. Maybe timed exclusivity for some titles? I have no idea. I do see they do better in this thread series's timeline, so there's that.
- This timeline's somewhere between ours and this thread series's. Microsoft has an Xbox in both of the latter, so why not here, too?
- As I said earlier:
Also, I'm new here, both to the forums as a whole and to this series of threads in particular. Please cut me some slack.
If nobody could tell — though I'd be surprised if they didn't follow the link and figure it out immediately —, the thrust behind idea 3 from
my other ost was to give people writing fan fiction of its other source material (
Sword Art Online) some new history to work with. Currently, canon at least partly implies and everybody assumes that things progressed mostly as they did in our timeline, then the
NerveGear full-dive VR headset just…came mostly out of nowhere.
Coming back to this:
the best I could come up with was the barest beginnings of something I drafted a partial sketch out of elsewhere that merges ideas 1 and 3 from
my other post:
I don't even know if this'd be viable for its tentatively originally intended purpose. If that scenario couldn't lead to the above, then I haven't thought about what would. I don't know what any potential consequences would be, either. Maybe this mess — and it is more than a bit of a mess; the presentation could certainly use some cleaning up — be interesting for another use, though? I've no clue.
I won't mention idea 3 from
my other post again; if anyone ends up pursuing it, it should be in a separate, spin-off thread to avoid derailing this one any further.
Not sure how long I might stick around in this thread, including to see if anybody picks any of the ideas I had in
my other post up, but I think I'll hang around for a bit longer.