Of Koopa's and Kremlings Redux

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Internal Drama in Bandai Resulting in Nintendo Acquisition​
More drama in the Japanese Video Game market today, as Nintendo Co. LTD announced they had purchased a controlling share in Bandai Corporation. According to sources members inside the Bandai Corporation requested to retiring CEO of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamuachi to have Nintendo take a controlling interest in the company to foster a new direction for the company.

Nintendo Announces a Re-Entry into the Arcade Business And Corporate Restructuring as Minoru Arawaka Takes the Helm​
-Nintendo Will Re-Enter the Arcade Business with their own board based off of the N64
-Nintendo has Purchased the remaining 51% of Rareware Ltd.
-Nintendo Co. LTD has established a new subsidiary Nintendo Arcade Development (NAD)
-Nintendo Arcade Development consists of three internal divisions
-Bandai Corporation has gone through a restructuring and is now a direct subsidiary to Nintendo
-Bandai Arcade division has been incorporated into Nintendo Arcade Division
-Bandai will now license Nintendo Toys throughout the World, Nintendo plans to leverage their new capabilities to expand their global branding power.
-Shigeru Miyamoto has Been Promoted to General Manager and Overseer of all Nintendo Studios


Nintendo Announces New IP Tekken A Direct Competitor to Virtua Fighter​

Nintendo announced the creation of a new studio composed of industry veterans including several former Sega employees which created the ideas behind Nintendo's new 3D Fighter Tekken which will release for both the new Nintendo 64 as well as Nintendo's new Arcade system which has yet to be formally announced.
 

starwarsfan

What is the Future of Nintendo?​

As Hiroshi Yamuachi leaves his company in the hands of his son in law, the company is going through massive changes and his dreams of a media/ corporate titan seems to becoming a reality with their acquisition of Bandai. Only the future can tell but it seems very bright for Nintendo.

Also today, they announced that several new toy lines that would be distributed by their new subsidiary Bandai Corporation.

Years later a memo would be leaked from Arawaka's ascension into Corporate Executive as CEO and his long term goals:
-Maintain Dominance in the Handheld Market
-Re-Establish Nintendo in the Arcade Market
-Establish Nintendo as a power in media's such as anime and movies with the acquisition of Bandai and over means
-Continue to Grow the Console Market in North America and Europe and continue their dominance in Japan.
-Further Enhance Relationships with Western Third Parties
-Leverage New Talent to Further Create New Studios and new IPs

Nintendo Announces Deal With LucasArts for Exclusive Star Wars Games on the Nintendo 64​

Today Nintendo furthered positioned themselves for the next generation of consoles by securing an exclusive deal with LucasArts for exclusive Star Wars and other original IPs on the Nintendo 64.
 

Nivek

That take me off-guard(and that was possible, Bandai wanted a videogame partner and try a failed merger with SEGA otl)

Nintendo Plans are ambitious but that lack of ambition was what they put in a corner in OTL, if they were more aggresive, oh god nintendo would've been a titan in the market.

The Lucasarts deal is excellent, much like the same one who give us Shadows of the empire, Rouge Squaron and others, maybe will be more pc ports of Star wars game to N64 and other systems?

Nice timeline, like the new focus with more game companies and less electronic ones.
 

starwarsfan

Sega: Next Generation Launch Plans​

As 1995 approached Sega was eagerly awaiting the new generation of consoles to begin after there merger with Namco and acquisition of Atlus
New Game Footage and Announcements
-Sonic New World
-Virtua Fighter 2
-Tales of Phantasia
-Ace Combat
-Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner Global Launch
-Panzer Dragoon


Sega's Next Generation Goals
-Further Consolidate North American Market Share
-Re-Assert and establish a market share in the hand held gaming market
-Directly Compete With Square Enix's RPG being Nintendo Esclusive
-Continue dominance of the arcade industry
-Expand market share in Japan
-Develop New Intellectual Properties and Studios to Enhance Software library
-Create new Sonic Spin Off Games to Go Compete With Nintendo's Mario Spin Off Games


Sega Announces new Details For The Neptune​
-The Sega Neptune will have four controller ports and can be expanded to over eight with multi taps
-The Sega Neptune Will Have an Adapter for Sega Genesis/ CD games
-Ram Expansion Possible through Cartridge Port
-Sega Neptune Will Be Able to Display "High Quality Video For Cut-scenes" due to a new chip inside the console.

Sega Announces the Sega Pluto Its New Handheld​
Today Sega Announced their new handheld the Sega Pluto
-Will Play Sega Genesis Games
-Will Feature new games created for the Sega Pluto
-It will be more powerful than the Sega Genesis
-There will be an adapter to play these games on the Sega Neptune
-Feature an Adapter for the Sega Game Gear Games
-Will Feature Connectivity Between the Sega Neptune and Pluto
 
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starwarsfan

Sega's Other Acquisition​
In early 1995, Sega also manged to purchase the game developer Atlus.

The reasoning on Atlus ends were simple, they were a smallish company that wanted a global presence and needed a better publisher and wanted to be tied to a larger brand to help push their own brand to greater prominence.

On Sega's side the idea was to expand their RPG offerings to go toe to toe with Final Fantasy as well as in general bolstering their first party game catalog. They also wanted a studio to create RPG's for their upcoming handheld.

After the acquisition was completed, Atlus began development on Sonic RPG: Legend of Shadow in conjunction with Sonic Team in an advising role.

The new game would debut a new antagonist Shadow the Hedgehog who manages to defeat Dr Robotnik and begins his quest for the chaos emeralds, and Sonic and Eggman teaming up to stop him.

At the same time Sega also started working on a Sonic Racing game which would release in both Arcades and the Sega Neptune.
 

starwarsfan

Konami Announces Castlevania Symphony of the Night as Sega Neptune Exclusive​
Today Konami announced that their new Castlevania game which is likely to be released in the fall of '96 will be a Sega Neptune exclusive.

According to Konami they plan to support Sega quite heavily next generation due to better royalties and corporate relations with Sega over Nintendo.

Resident Evil Will be on both Sega Neptune and Nintendo 64​
Another announcement today was that Resident Evil would be on both the Nintendo 64 and Sega Neptune.

Nintendo Announces delay in N64 Launch Q1 1996​

Nintendo today announced that the Nintendo 64 had been delayed so that it could use high capacity cartridges at launch.

Rareware Unveils New Projects​
With the next generation of systems coming out and Donkey Kong Country 3 being at or near completion for the Nintendo 64, Rareware has unveiled some of its new projects. Over the last year the studio has had major expansions since the Nintendo acquisition.

Killer Instinct 3: A sequel to Killer Instinct 2 and planned release of holiday '96

Blast Corps: A unique game about explosives and guiding them between buildings. Planned release date holiday '96

Banjo Kazooie: Currently only in alpha development, it will be a 3D Platformer not much else is known.

Nintendo "Super System 64" Arcade Board Unveiled​
Nintendo also announced today the name of their new arcade board and some of the titles that will be coming to arcades and presumably the Nintendo 64 as well or a companion version.

-Killer Instinct 3
-Tekken
-Mario Kart Arcade Circuit
-Star Wars Arcade (Working Title)
-Cruis'n USA (Was Delayed in TTL)

Nintendo 64 Launch Titles
-Super Mario 64
-Pilotwings 64
-Donkey Kong Country 3
-Star Fox 2
-Resident Evil
-Cruis'n USA

Launch Price 300$ Bundled With Super Mario 64

Sega Neptune Launch Titles
-Daytona 2
-Sonic New World
-Virtua Fighter 2
-Tales of Phantasia
-Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
-Panzer Dragoon

Launch Price 350$ Bundled With Sonic Lost World
 
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Sega Neptune Releases to Great Fanfare Dominates Holiday Season​

Sega's release of the Sega Neptune beat expectations selling over 1.2 million units in its launch holiday season. The big question now is will it be able to compete with the Nintendo 64 launching in a mere few weeks time?

In particular Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner benefited from a world wide release due to Atlus's recent acquisition by Sega-Namco selling out in Japan very quickly as well as selling decently in North America and in particular Europe.

However in America a controversy over the game has been brewing as many Christian groups have labeled as Satanic. In a sense though, this could be ultimately good for Sega to get more publicity of its RPG competitors to SquareSoft and to advertise its new focus on RPG's.

Nintendo 64 Launches: Sold Out Across The Country​
As the Nintendo 64 launches, many stores were cleared out of inventory within the first day with analysts saying Nintendo sold approximately 600,000 units in the first few days alone.

The big system seller was of course Mario 64 being a revolutionary game, but other gems shined as well including Donkey Kong Country 3 and Star Fox 2 in particular shined the advancements possible in 2D and 3D games on the system.
 

Nivek

Excellent Update, both Sega and Nintendo have found good sucess with their new consoles(pretty comparative to OTL, in japan, Saturn was segas biggest launch even in japan and outsold the PS1 until FFVII Happened, and Nintendo is not shabby either, close to OTL N64 sucess to 1998.)

Excellent news for Atlus, that SMT have been a sucess outside japan now, yes won some new critics but that is normal, 'Moral guardians' have been a bitch since Reagan,XD.

So nice update so far, the market will be interesting to see in the future...
 

starwarsfan

Midway-Atari Merger Announced​

In a shocking move today, Midway and Atari announced they were merging to consolidate their market share in both the Arcades and among software line ups. They will be a major force among western video game companies which also includes Activision and Electronic Arts as well as other smaller ones such as Ubisoft.

Samsung Buying SNK​
In another surprising move recently, Samsung has bought SNK and seems to be in the works of other acquisitions in preparation of a new home console launch.

According to our sources, Samsung is also trying to purchase Eidos and is interested in other smaller studios they think they can grow at a cheaper price than purchasing additional studios.

Bit of Foreshadowing
Supreme Court Watch 2000​
In a massive Court case, the courts ruled in favor of the United States Federal Government in the case of United States v. Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft will be broken up until several companies.
 

Nivek

AnywhereButOTL said:
Oh dear. That court case with Microsoft might do some funny things to the market.
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That would means two things:

1) Apple die and they take the MacOS with them to the grave, that would give MS defacto monopoly in Operating System..and the FTC would look for MS about monopolies and will like AT&T Loss their Monopoly Trial and being forced to cut down.

2)OTL MS trial of monopoly is loss by MS(was pretty close OTL) and that would change the thing to come.

and Atari was still alive? they don't crash and burn bad thanks to the Atari Jaguar fiasco(or Tramiel decied doing nothing because better that make a circus?)

Samsung... will be interesting, they were SEGA old partner in Korea...
 

starwarsfan

Apple Filing For Bankruptcy MacOS is Virtually Dead​

In a major shock to the markets, Apple announced they were filing for bankruptcy. Many analysts are concerned this could lead to Microsoft having a monopoly on Operating Systems which could in theory lead to court intervention, however most analysts dismissed the idea of it.

Sakura Taisen Major Success in Japan, American and PAL Localization Coming by Holiday Season​
Developer Working Design Announced they would be localizing the Japanese hit game Sakura Taisen in other regions by the holiday season.

Pixar Drops Lawsuit Announces Collaboration With Nintendo​
Today Pixar dropped its lawsuit against DMA and announced they were collaborating with Nintendo whom apparently bought a stake in the corporation after negotiations with Steve Jobs.

They will be producing cut scenes for the new 3D Mario game and Legend of Zelda games on the Nintendo 64
 

Nivek

starwarsfan said:
Apple Filing For Bankruptcy MacOS is Virtually Dead​

In a major shock to the markets, Apple announced they were filing for bankruptcy. Many analysts are concerned this could lead to Microsoft having a monopoly on Operating Systems which could in theory lead to court intervention, however most analysts dismissed the idea of it.

Sakura Taisen Major Success in Japan, American and PAL Localization Coming by Holiday Season​
Developer Working Design Announced they would be localizing the Japanese hit game Sakura Taisen in other regions by the holiday season.

Pixar Drops Lawsuit Announces Collaboration With Nintendo​
Today Pixar dropped its lawsuit against DMA and announced they were collaborating with Nintendo whom apparently bought a stake in the corporation after negotiations with Steve Jobs.

They will be producing cut scenes for the new 3D Mario game and Legend of Zelda games on the Nintendo 64
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So Apple is dying, so Apple board of manager didn't beg to Jobs to save apple? that will be interesting in chinese sense?(Jobs practically change apple to become NeXT and use NeXTOS as the basis for Itunes and other products) well, MS behind you, without MacOS there is not other competitor(Amiga is dead, other are dead, NeXT is used by nobody and Linux is yet to be made)

yeah for Sakura Wars, that game will proved Working Design ability, that game use heavy voice acting and singing(were made by musical actors insteas voice actors) and will be nice to released soon with the anime, will be 1997 title and help to sega fend other big games.

So DMA Design will have better relationship with nintendo(after Uniracers fiasco and the cancellation of Uniracers 64, Nintendo left those at their luck, heck they don't publish body harvest for that)

Interesting update, thing will be unique in the future.
 

starwarsfan

Holiday Line Ups 1996 Exclusives​
Nintendo:
Pokemon 64: A Full Fledged Pokemon RPG utilizing the disk and cartridge system
Final Fantasy VII Japanese Release Holiday Season Worldwide in '97
Killer Instinct 3

Sega:
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Dreams Into Nights
Tomb Raider
Crash Bandicoot
Diablo

Also Sega is pushing their new 3D Controller with Analog Sticks

However the big titles will be coming out in 1997 which we hope has potential to become one of the biggest years in gaming ever.
 

starwarsfan

Sega Announces New Sonic Games​

At this year's E3, Sega unveiled new games slated for 1997 focused on Sonic Spin Offs including Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing and Sonic RPG.

Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing ill be developed by AM2 and Sonic RPG will be developed by Atlus in conjunction with input from Sonic Team.

In other Sega news, Sega showed off two new Fighting Games Last Bronx and Fighting Vipers.

Nintendo Announces Mario Party and Other Games​

Today Nintendo announced Mario Party a four player virtual board game with mini games determining the winner of coins and stars, released in 1997.

Nintendo also showed off Goldeneye a First Person Shooter developed by Rareware which has potential to be a revolution in gameplay on home consoles.
 
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