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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days 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@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Peace was never an option

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 37 points 2 days 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.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

then everything changed when

$299

[–] mcforest@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day 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.

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

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Swap Xbox and GameCube and you got it

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days 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

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

There is no war in E3.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days 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@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

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