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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Revisionist history. We were not living in harmony.

The Dreamcast lovers cried into their Shen Mue.

Game Cube fans quietly played Smash bros.

PC Master Race was still arguing about sound cards and telling Gabe to fuck off with this Steam Always On Bullshit.

For most of the gaming industry, you were either PS or Xbox. There was no unity.

[–] otp 16 points 1 month ago

And Sony was laughing at Microsoft for entering the console business...while simultaneously laughing at Nintendo for underestimating them.

How the tables would turn a generation later.

And turn again another generation later.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd hardly call it harmony. Those were brutal times.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Peace was never an option

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except for the PlayStation only being a thing because Nintendo stabbed Sony in the back, and Sega was already dead.

1 out of 4 isn't bad, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

then everything changed when

$299

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Dreamcast didn't even survive until the release of the Xbox (if I'm not mistaken).

[–] mudstickmcgee 5 points 1 month ago

The Dreamcast was so ahead of it's time no one understood it's greatness.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This was in a way by design, Sega and Microsoft had an very interesting relationship at the time. With Windows CE on Dreamcast, Isao Okawa meeting with Bill Gates to try to save the DC library, and Peter Moore moving from Sega to Xbox.

It reminds me of how the PlayStation was originally supposed to be a SNES CD before they went their separate ways.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

GameCube: Fire Nation
Dreamcast: Air Nomads
Xbox: Water Tribes
PlayStation: Earth Kingdom

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Swap Xbox and GameCube and you got it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Schrodinger's Four Nations: The comment is edited, but this comment doesn't specify the original assignment of each nation to a console, and it leaves GameCube and Xbox completely ambiguous

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IMO Xbox is the fire nation, especially in that era of gaming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The various box arts for the different console releases of Soul Calibur II clarify which console is which nation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

There is no war in E3.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except in this version, the Air Nomads collapsed because their American office was spending more on marketing than on actual development.

Also didn't help that the air nomad controller was fucking borked.

[–] stevedice 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nintendo didn't collapse in America. What are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're joking, but I think they meant SEGA

[–] stevedice 1 points 1 month ago

I am but I'm extremely anti /s