What would gaming look like if Microsoft never entered the console market and SEGA wasnt financially in the shitter?

What would gaming look like if Microsoft never entered the console market and SEGA wasnt financially in the shitter?

no idea about with Sega but if Microsoft had never enter the fray we would have go Nintendo way. being 1 gen behind graphics wise, but hardware will be affordable or not sold at lost, games would be cheaper to develop so more risky games could be made

nothing but shitposting platform war faggotry, so barely any change at the end of the day

Basically the same. Sega prided themselves on arcade-perfect games. Nintendo for kids. Sony more cinematically-driven games.

I can't imagine gaming evolving any other way.

Sega is a very Japanese Arcade-centric company. With the introduction of the Playstation, games began evolving (devolving?) away from gameplay and challenge centric games and more towards being more cinematic and having photo realistic graphics, even at the expense of enjoyability. That goes against Sega's philosphy. Microsoft, and American company, has no problem with the changing philosophy in game design, and picked the right time to jump into the market. Western game designers have never been able to match the Japanese at their own game. So if you can't beat em, change the rules.

Big non-gaming mega corporations jumping into the games industry was an inevitability and Sega was always going to be an endangered species if they stuck to their old ways of making games.

We wouldn't get all those fucking brown military shooters, certainly.
Which means video games would be overall in much better shape.

Bungie would have just released Oni 3 and Myth 5 for Mac, Linux, and Windows among a number of other unique and non-conventional games.
Halo would be a historical footnote as having been a neat one-off tech demo game for UNIX and OpenGL gaming at the time.

PC gaming would likely have been much healthier through the 00s to the present day and wouldn't have seen the long stagnation during the Windows XP/360 DX9 era as more games would have used OpenGL for its more advanced features.

Consoles from Sega and Nintendo would have likely remained cheap toys relying on creative use of minimal hardware.

This, I'd feel like gaming would have been a lot healthier since game industry workers would have more transferable skills in a PC dominated market.
Sega I feel would of been swallowed up by Nintendo eventually though, especially with the Mobile market they indirectly compete against in the hand held side of things.

Sony without direct competition doesn't follow the Apple shitty practices of the past, they would of released the next technology and made damn sure all the juice was squeezed out of that generation. Most likely we'd have less prettier graphics, but way more franchises alive and kicking so people are spoiled for choice.

The same but with more sonic and online games wouldn't be a thing.

If Sega stayed alive, gaming would have been much better now.

Sony is the borg, microshit is pc gaming lite, Nintendo is the retarded kid throwing shit at the wall. Only sega can save us from these dark times.

Online would exist because of PC and Sega, Microsoft brought nothing but PAID online.

Preach, brother.

we'd probably have a lot less paid dlc and more idorts, since sega's first party was nice, even though not as nice as ninty.

>online games wouldn't be a thing.
Dreamcast already had online play though

>even though not as nice as ninty

That's like your opinion, mane.

Indeed it is.I know plenty people who disagree - my wife for instance.

Maybe Rare would of been bought out by Activision which almost did happen?

So instead of only making shitty shovelware games every few years for Kinect,
Rare would have pumped out rushed sequels every year for all of their well known franchises until everyone hated Rare and all of their IPs?

Well, there would be some perks to it.

We could probably at least get Rare's old games on Steam or on Virtual Console. Maybe we could of gotten the original N64 version of Diddy Kong Racing back, with Banjo and Conker still in-tact. Maybe Banjo & Kazooie would be likelier to get into Smash Bros.

as a general rule, I haven't bought any Activision or EA games in about 15 years because they're essentially just a cancer on the industry and even if it barely makes a difference I don't want to give them any of my money

Microsoft would have likely continued trying to get close to SEGA so its likely many Xbox games would just be SEGA games instead.

Bungie would have released Halo on PC+Mac first, with a PS2 port in the pipeline later. A Sega version would have been probably likely.

>what if sony didnt ruin sega
>what if microsoft didnt best sony

>what if microsoft was the bad guy
Kill yourself kike

>microsoft started paid online
>microsoft sold defective consoles for years
>microsoft made you pay $100 for an attachment to play games online wirelessly
>microsoft attempted to screw everybody over back in 2013
>microsoft are the good guys
Piss off shill