Nintendo's New Groove: An Alternate Nintendo Timeline
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Let's Talk About How Sony and Microsoft are Doing
Before we get to how Nintendo is doing in 2003, may I ask you about how Sony and Microsoft are doing?
Now, the Sony PlayStation was released on December 3, 1994 (in Japan), and as for everywhere else? September 1995. It was the first of the PlayStation lineup of video game consoles. As a fifth generation console, the PlayStation primarily competed with the Nintendo Ultra-64 and the Sega Saturn. There have been many well-known games at that time period, they include Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, Parappa the Rapper, Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3, One, Vagrant Story, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Resident Evil, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Spyro the Dragon, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, Crash Team Racing, Chrono Cross, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Suikoden II, Driver, R4: Ridge Racer Type 4, Final Fantasy VIII, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, The Legend of Dragoon, Xenogears, Silent Hill, Parasite Eve, Chrono Trigger, Wipeout 2097, Tomb Raider II, Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage, Syphon Filter, I.Q.: Intelligent Qube, Twisted Metal 2, Einhander, Mega Man Legends, Bushido Blade, Resident Evil 2, Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Gran Turismo, Crash Bandicoot, Legend of Legaia, Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, Jumping Flash, Puyo Puyo Sun, Puyo Puyo~n, Puyo Puyo BOX, Colony Wars, Final Fantasy VI, Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus, and other games for the PS1.
When the PlayStation 2 was released, things got really interesting! There’s a new Super Smash Bros.-esque fighting game released in 2001 known as “PlayStation All-Stars Clash”! It features the following fighters.:
Now, you may be wondering about what happened to the KoroTimes series. It’s now part of the Sony team. After KoroTimes Multiverse got released on the Super Game Boy in 2001, the creators of KoroTimes now work for Sony. They got the exclusivity rights to that company. Yeah, that is all.
And the rest is up to you.
The Xbox is a home video game console and the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles manufactured by Microsoft. It was released as Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia, Europe and Japan in 2002.
The Xbox launched in North America on November 15, 2001. Popular launch games included Halo: Combat Evolved, Project Gotham Racing, and Dead or Alive 3. All three of these games would go on to sell over a million copies in the US. Now originally, Microsoft was gonna buy Rare, but Nintendo bought Rare, so Microsoft will have to look for an alternative. Possible company candidates include BioWare, Epic Games, Silicon Knights, Codemasters, Allocade, Id Software, Take-Two Interactive, and Crytek. But who do they get?
The Sony Side
After the fallout with Nintendo, Sony has worked on the PlayStation, just so they can compete with Nintendo. So this is what it looks like.
When the PlayStation 2 was released, things got really interesting! There’s a new Super Smash Bros.-esque fighting game released in 2001 known as “PlayStation All-Stars Clash”! It features the following fighters.:
- Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy)
- Crash Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)
- Croc (Croc)
- Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)
- Mega Man X (Mega Man)
- Parappa the Rapper (Parappa the Rapper)
- Protagonist (Revelations: Persona)
- Sir Daniel Fortesque (MediEvil)
- Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
- Spike (Ape Escape)
- Spyro the Dragon (Spyro the Dragon)
- Tatsuya Suou (Persona 2)
- Tomba (Tomba)
- Toro Inoue (Doko Demo Issyo)
Now, you may be wondering about what happened to the KoroTimes series. It’s now part of the Sony team. After KoroTimes Multiverse got released on the Super Game Boy in 2001, the creators of KoroTimes now work for Sony. They got the exclusivity rights to that company. Yeah, that is all.
And the rest is up to you.
The Microsoft Side
Microsoft worked on their latest creation at the time in 2001, and it is the Xbox.
The Xbox launched in North America on November 15, 2001. Popular launch games included Halo: Combat Evolved, Project Gotham Racing, and Dead or Alive 3. All three of these games would go on to sell over a million copies in the US. Now originally, Microsoft was gonna buy Rare, but Nintendo bought Rare, so Microsoft will have to look for an alternative. Possible company candidates include BioWare, Epic Games, Silicon Knights, Codemasters, Allocade, Id Software, Take-Two Interactive, and Crytek. But who do they get?
At least answe my question, wonder if SEGA was unable to compete with MS on tech race...studio interest too.
Take Two might be too much their price range(Did they own DMA Design and Rockstar? if the answer is no...them getting Take two and their sports game and max payne become a real posibility) Epic is already a third party software maker, they would say no to not loss licensing unreal to others developers, the rest could happen.
Yeah there consideration, 2K resisted attempt of buyout from EA as EA wanted them to shutdown their sports game OTL, so yeah Take-two/2K could resist, thee same EPIC, they already are a middleware supplier, that might loss going xbox only(Nintendo is already using Unreal Engine since Metroid Prime), dunno About ID..as long they can launch games on PC might not care, which one is Allocade ? google don't give a match
And that is why i got zero result, i thought bubsy was Titus but well... Unironically is good they're not going against Atari or SEGA