Gaming’s greatest What Ifs

[Jaguar93]

What if Nintendo bought RARE instead of Microsoft

 

[Doomsday]

• What if Square and Enix never merged. And The Spirits Within was a success.

That's probably the winner. That changed the entire landscape of JRPG's and gaming in general.

Square was on an absolute tear and everything they made was gold. Square was just a bunch of artists passionate about gaming. Once Enix came in, they became a business that made each game under a template.

It's like when EA bought Mass Effect and Dead Space. Both franchises immediately fell off afterward.

 

[SymbolicOne09]

What if xbox live was free on og xbox

 

[SymbolicOne09]

What if Nintendo bought RARE instead of Microsoft

Would of already had a classic conker, banjo and possible classic perfect dark game by now

 

[Jaguar93]

Damn Konami didn’t tell bro lol. Kojima could’ve been in Hollywood way earlier. MGS3 might’ve been a PS3 game. If Kojima gotten his hands on The Matrix.

 

[Days of Future Piff]

What if Bernie Stolar hadn't dropped the ball with the RAM cartridge?
X-men vs. Street Fighter could have expanded the market

 

[ball15life]

What if EA never had the NFL exclusivity deal

 

[Redwood]

• What if MGS2 was really Kojima’s last Metal Gear game.
• What if Kojima and Konami never had a falling out. And MGSV was completed and Silent Hills wasn’t cancelled.
• What if Square and Enix never merged. And The Spirits Within was a success.

What if Sleeping Dogs 2 came into fruition?

 

[Hopeofmypeople]

What if this was never csncelled



London studio might be where insomniac is on the roster

Why have I never seen this before, it’s got that Miami vice energy going for it.

 

[Hopeofmypeople]

What if Sony never sold their shares at Square enix and in fact acquired a greater percentage of shares?

What if Microsoft bought BioWare instead of EA?


What if Larian where giving the license for Knights of the old republic 3 instead of Baldurs gate 3?

 

[parallax]

What if….

• What if that Nintendo/Playstation console actually released instead of the N64.
• What if GTA 3, Spider-Man, Resident Evil 4, Destiny, and Guitar Hero were Xbox exclusives?
• What if the Dreamcast never failed?
• What if Dark Souls was a PlayStation exclusive?
• What if DMC1 or RE 3.5 would’ve stayed Resident Evil 4?
• What if Naughty Dog would’ve released that Jak reboot instead of Uncharted?
• What if FF7 released on the N64, and Square and Nintendo never had a falling out?

What if Thrill Kill was released instead of reworked into Wu-Tang Shaolin Style.

What if Fable actually did everything Peter Molyneux claimed it would?

What if EA Big kept going?

What if Sega never dropped out of the console wars?

What if Bernie Stolar hadn't dropped the ball with the RAM cartridge?
X-men vs. Street Fighter could have expanded the market

the sad past about sega theory crafting is that the roots were so rotten at the time that just about every theory thought up wouldnt change segas end fate. the infighting, working behind others backs, confusion on how to move forward in the console space not only damned the saturn, but the dreamcast with it.

the ram cart is a perfect example. arcade perfect versions of xmen vs street fighter, marvel vs sreet fighter, and street fighter alpha 3 would have had early internet chatrooms buzzing more if they got western releases, but it would have come out on the saturn in the west at the time, so despite being better than its playstation counterpart, it would have gone mostly unnoticed and now the release of said games would go for 4 fukking digits if not more.

honestly a saving grace after sega folded would be for them to be bought out by microsoft for their then unreleased console, as well as changing the name of the console from the xbox to the sega msx or the msx 3. nothing would change in the west, and they would seem to have the japanese influence needed to thrive in japan. especially since it seems many of the sega games being worked on for the xbox were dreamcast holdovers. gut the sega of america division to bare essentials and merge them with the ms gaming division while keeping sega of japan(albeit heavily reined in) and they could have created magic.

 

[daemonova]

What if….

• What if that Nintendo/Playstation console actually released instead of the N64.
• What if GTA 3, Spider-Man, Resident Evil 4, Destiny, and Guitar Hero were Xbox exclusives?
• What if the Dreamcast never failed?
• What if Dark Souls was a PlayStation exclusive?
• What if DMC1 or RE 3.5 would’ve stayed Resident Evil 4?
• What if Naughty Dog would’ve released that Jak reboot instead of Uncharted?
• What if FF7 released on the N64, and Square and Nintendo never had a falling out?

Resident evil 4 was made for the GameCube, do you mean Resident evil 5? ,(which was made for Wii, but I'll fight that battle another day)

 

[daemonova]

What if….

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• What if the Dreamcast never failed?
• What if Dark Souls was a PlayStation exclusive?
• What if DMC1 or RE 3.5 would’ve stayed Resident Evil 4?
• What if Naughty Dog would’ve released that Jak reboot instead of Uncharted?
• What if FF7 released on the N64, and Square and Nintendo never had a falling out?

-Sega was too ambitious
-Playstation was going yo do what it did anyway
-RE4 was a better game
-Uncharted did pretty well anyway
-even as a fan of FF4 (FF2), there wasnt enough memory on N64 for FF7, I care more about Secret of Mana franchise being dropped

 

[daemonova]

What if Sony never sold their shares at Square enix and in fact acquired a greater percentage of shares?

What if Microsoft bought BioWare instead of EA?

-Sony too Japanese oriented as it is
-Microsoft would have gave up on gaming anyway

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

What if this was never csncelled



London studio might be where insomniac is on the roster

This was dope.

I'm still sad this never came out.