( I really would love a time line where the amiga survives as the second or 3rd player ) you all sega, Nintendo, sony, Microsoft peeps. Commodore had it.. they squandered it and died a horrid death

give me one where commodore has a clue ..
hell sega teams up with commodore .. anything.. give a fella human a hand ..
<sorry ramblings of an old man who loved his amiga beyond what is considered rational and normal and or healthy > but if being a better games machine would help matters and cash flow, then I am fine with that. The OS needed some work by 3.1 .. the machines needed to go to the next level, and lack of cash flow didn't help to do that, and well. if you could get the mindset to change inside the company. being a closed system wasn't helping matters much, but then again it was what it was.

apple made it work somehow - commodore should sure as heck have been able too. what woul dhave been ironic for Atari to team up with Commodore on a next gen ( if they could start EARLY Enough to make it next gen enough. ) okay.. i'll stop now and go back to my private bunker and fire up my a1200 and drink my wine and play some dessert attack or prince of Persia or if any else ever played it. gravattack ( that was awesome sauce ) .. gack I'm rambling again
ON a serious note: my issue with these timelines is that Sega teaming up with sony would only mean that sega gets swallowed by Sony. I think that is why the Sony Nintendo deal fell through. now If you get two other players to team up and do it right there is a good chance. you need the catalog, the hardware, some vision and go. sega was stagnating. 3D0 wAS COOL, but simply had no catalog and even the titles didn't look that great compared to other platforms at the time.
The playstation and xbox struck at the weakness of both sega and Nintendo.. they were established and people had expectations about what they were playing and what was coming next and neither company wanted to rock the boat as the remember the 82-84 gaming collapse.