I was thinking whether Nakayama revaluated his priorities between the console and arcade business. Especially when it comes to opening physical locations. More for allowing a cushion for the console business when the future economic situation costs it to lose money.
Wonder if Sony working with Sega will change Nakayama's priorities? He was arcade centered and wanted to open locations to host Sega's high end arcade machines. Meaning a whole lot of money was dedicated to arcade operations in the budget...
Help that Sega knows the future hardware they will work on vs Sonic 06s development. Considering that they split the team to make Sonic and the Secret Rings when they learned that the Wii wasn't a HD-targeting console, there will be no issues here. Would also help if they didn't have a hard...
I wonder what standards will Nintendo impose on future development projects. Here's something from OTL with Sega's attempt to reboot Golden Axe in 2008.
Monolith Soft getting to work on the SRW IP was only happenstance, because Soichiro Morizumi, the director of the Endless Frontier games, was a former SRW dev at Banpresto, responsible for many of the GBA SRW titles including OG, After doing the GBA games he left Banpresto to work at Monolith...
It was more that they invest so much expansion to physical "parks" in the US that propping up the Genesis lost out. Combined with the exchange rates then, it really meant Sega of America really couldn't afford to sell the Genesis at the low prices they insisted on long term.
Selling the arcade businesses makes sense for sure. At this time they would be a financial drain.
Heck, Sega trying to expand physical arcades was one of the reasons they were burning a lot of cash in the 90s...
In OTL news, Sony just announced they are going to purchase Bungie. While it doesn't have any direct impact on the direction of this TL, but it is pointed out that Sony and Bungie were in discussions for a while. Something to consider when figuring out future purchases for this TL.
For now. Supposedly, if the deal gets done (it is still pending) all of Activision Blizzard units will directly answer to Phil Spencer, now the CEO of Microsoft Gaming (previously he was just the VP of Xbox) instead.
Microsoft in a way got a deal, considering ever since the scandals at...
It would also depend on what assets need to be duplicated between all discs. You can't just divide the overall size of the DVD version and split it between smaller discs.
I wonder ITTL did Nintendo in 2003 release the Nintendo Puzzle Collection for the Gamecube in Japan, where it had Dr. Mario (based on the N64 version), Yoshi's Cookie, and Panel de Pon (based on the canceled N64 Japanese version, which was used for Pokemon Puzzle League).
Even with a VC I can see native versions of all the puzzle games, for handheld and console. And by bundling them together you can do vs modes that combines all the games like Puyo Puyo Tetris.
I wonder if there will be a some sort of "Puzzle Pack" compilation in the future, featuring Tetris, Dr. Mario, Panel de Pon/Puzzle League, and Puyo Puyo?