Probably do everything in my power to ensure the gaming landscape isn’t as predatory in terms of having to pay for online access on consoles and seeing the Devil itself ( big red N ) go down in flames. Also, try to make console exclusives seen as something nobody is interested in anymore and are unwilling to purchase, more or less towards the 2010s rather than the 2000s, otherwise some of my favorite franchises wouldn’t exist.
XboxLive? Find a way to fudge all the numbers to make it look like absolutely nobody was buying it!
GameCube? Find a way to ensure little to no 3rd party devs make anything for it by any means possible!
PSN? Keep that free like it was for PS3!
Would need to spend months, if not years, to figure out how to make all of that and ending console exclusives a thing, but a world without all that, IMO, would be a better world.
Darling if you want to stop Nintendo from becoming Nintendo it’s not the GameCube you have to fuck with. The GC was already a gigantic flop (although home to 5 or 6 amazing games). Nobody cared about it in the early aughts and in fact it carried the stigma of being “for little kids” and you could be bullied in school for having one.
You need to hit them where it actually hurts.
You need to stop Pokémon. I feel stopping Gen2 from dropping might have done the trick, made it into just another fad that passed instead of STILL TO THIS DAY THE BIGGEST MEDIA FRANCHISE IN THE WORLD.
Nintendo would have died in the n64 years if Pokémon didn’t carry them on its back (and also completely change the face of pop culture by getting the west into Anime).
Every time they made a flop, Pokémon is what saw them through it.
I’ve definitely had one of those “if I could go back” style scenarios innmy head and didn’t choose pokemon because the question didn’t include the 90s.
My plan for that would be to go back to the beginning of the 90s and basically convince Sega that I’m from the future and give them a copy of gens 1 and 2 for gameboy, alongside a bunch of ads for the game, and let them most likely mess everything up like we know they would.
But that plan hinges upon me being able to travel back in time with things instead of Terminator popping into the past with no clothes or possessions. Also depends on whether I could travel back with a translator as well because my Japanese is not good enough for a forced business meeting with Sega of Japan.
Probably do everything in my power to ensure the gaming landscape isn’t as predatory in terms of having to pay for online access on consoles and seeing the Devil itself ( big red N ) go down in flames. Also, try to make console exclusives seen as something nobody is interested in anymore and are unwilling to purchase, more or less towards the 2010s rather than the 2000s, otherwise some of my favorite franchises wouldn’t exist.
XboxLive? Find a way to fudge all the numbers to make it look like absolutely nobody was buying it!
GameCube? Find a way to ensure little to no 3rd party devs make anything for it by any means possible!
PSN? Keep that free like it was for PS3!
Would need to spend months, if not years, to figure out how to make all of that and ending console exclusives a thing, but a world without all that, IMO, would be a better world.
Darling if you want to stop Nintendo from becoming Nintendo it’s not the GameCube you have to fuck with. The GC was already a gigantic flop (although home to 5 or 6 amazing games). Nobody cared about it in the early aughts and in fact it carried the stigma of being “for little kids” and you could be bullied in school for having one.
You need to hit them where it actually hurts.
You need to stop Pokémon. I feel stopping Gen2 from dropping might have done the trick, made it into just another fad that passed instead of STILL TO THIS DAY THE BIGGEST MEDIA FRANCHISE IN THE WORLD.
Nintendo would have died in the n64 years if Pokémon didn’t carry them on its back (and also completely change the face of pop culture by getting the west into Anime).
Every time they made a flop, Pokémon is what saw them through it.
I’ve definitely had one of those “if I could go back” style scenarios innmy head and didn’t choose pokemon because the question didn’t include the 90s.
My plan for that would be to go back to the beginning of the 90s and basically convince Sega that I’m from the future and give them a copy of gens 1 and 2 for gameboy, alongside a bunch of ads for the game, and let them most likely mess everything up like we know they would.
But that plan hinges upon me being able to travel back in time with things instead of Terminator popping into the past with no clothes or possessions. Also depends on whether I could travel back with a translator as well because my Japanese is not good enough for a forced business meeting with Sega of Japan.
That was why I mentioned Gen 2
It dropped in 2000 after a LOOOONG development hell. And one flap of the butterfly’s wing would have stopped Gold and Silver from being released
Which in turn would have killed the franchise’s momentum.