Oh lord, why even ask this on this site? (Rhetorical, I know why.)
Nobody knows what would have happened in any hypothetical situation, and video games would have been on the PC regardless. This thread is just an opportunity for people to thank their messiah of gaming - and apparently to hate on Sony for whatever reason.
Anyone that claims to know how actions decades ago affect the world today is off their rocker.
Conversely, we can thank Nintendo for the birth of the Playstation
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Only in the US. In Europe, gaming was going fine and didn't crash at all. It's one of the reasons Nintendo has a much bigger fanbase in the former than the latter.
all this talk is making me wonder if the ms and sony hype bubble of war training games is coming to a crash, if not this gen then within the next few
Gaming nowadays is extremely different than it was in 1983, to such an extent that we won't see the same type of crash. You had a glut of me-too consoles (currently regulated by the console space being too expensive for everyone to compete in), the buying population was extremely uninformed about what the options in consoles and games actually meant (currently dealt with by the existence of the internet and gaming journalism), and video games in general were not seen as an equal entertainment medium, but potentially as a fad. The gaming landscape will likely morph and adapt over the next few decades, but we'll never ever see again a period where video games as a whole more or less 'go away'.
very true. i forgot that there were tons of atari type clone consoles back then. i wouldn't expect a full on crash where games go away all together, but im more expecting that some of the big companies who keep riding the same trends and basically release the same game every year, are going to crash themselves
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