• @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 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.

  • @Armand1
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    431 month ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    381 month ago

    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.

  • @Cort
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    221 month ago

    then everything changed when

    $299

  • @[email protected]
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    201 month ago

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

    • @ParadoxSeahorse
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      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.

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

    • @Glytch
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      111 month ago

      Swap Xbox and GameCube and you got it

      • HEXN3T
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        121 month ago

        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

        • @Glytch
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          71 month ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

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

  • @RizzRustbolt
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    51 month ago

    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.