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.
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.
I'd hardly call it harmony. Those were brutal times.
Peace was never an option
then everything changed when
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The Dreamcast didn't even survive until the release of the Xbox (if I'm not mistaken).
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.
GameCube: Fire Nation
Dreamcast: Air Nomads
Xbox: Water Tribes
PlayStation: Earth KingdomThere is no war in E3.
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.
