Pros: >Antitrust Laws have power >Seaman. Cons: >A more powerful and overbearing Apple all through the 2000s & 2010s >Both Nintendo and Sony being stripped for parts and their IPs being purchased by Apple & other companies >Microsoft struggling to stay afloat the entire time
If the government even bothered with anti-trust laws anymore, they would probably all be leveled against MS. In the late 90's they were in court for anti-trust cases, and now with their big buy-up of games studios, they're getting pretty close to getting into monopoly territory again. Hate Apple all you want, but don't pretend like Microsoft are a moral shining light, as they've consistently proven themselves not to be.
Siri the name pre-existed apple purchasing the developer of the product. It’s not the assistant’s name so much as the name of the software. There’s no way Siri would have been called Cortana, especially since even if Halo was a mac exclusive (super unlikely anyway), Apple would never have owned Bungie or any other major games studio
@@stevenedwardyoung ALTHOUGH, if Apple bought up Bungie, it's possible that Apple would've named a device after Cortana or at the very least a Halo character. The Apple Warthog.
All should experience Seaman. The lack of Seaman in all of our lives is crime. Once again, the Polygon team has managed to make a video that speaks to me, and my undying love for Seaman. And that’s all despite me having a cameo and still being unaware of Seaman’s involvement.
SO excited to see a Clayton installment of this series! I lovvvvved the wardrobe change as a way to differentiate between 'verses -- I've enjoyed the mirror flip effect in previous Versuses (versi??) but it was easier for me to miss/forget about if I wasn't paying close enough attention and lose track of what 'verse we were in. This is a super fun and cute way to make that clearer!
iGames Content Rectitude and Purification Department eliminating Waluigi's "erotic mustache" is what will kill me. I can feel it. I won't last much longer.
No, to be honest there's no way an extra console; no matter how popular, could cause the PS3 to fail. The BluRay is the sole reason the PS3 did as well as it did when the 360 already had a massive lead start and nearly twice the library.
at first I thought, “wtf are you doing?!” when the teabagging narrative kicked off, but, the way you blended it all together was hilarious. this was great.
I love these what-if stories. One thing you didn't touch on: Apple delaying the iPhone would've caused a tremendous change in the current mobile phone market. We probably would've been stuck with flip phones instead of transitioning to chocolate bar-shaped handsets that are mostly screen, Blackberry and Nokia would've continued their respective dominances over the American and global market, Android would've become the "ecosystem" of choice as it would have no real competitors in 2008, we could've seen MS, Nokia, and BB all transition to Android instead of trying to develop their own mobile OS and fail. Even a one year delay from 2007 to 2008 would've been monumental.
I enjoy these video essays but where are the videos like Griffin’s Amiibo Corner and Pat’s Please Retweet Toad?? I need that old school Polygon weirdness in my life!
I have a really hard time believing that Nintendo would die that easily. Sure you can play M rated on Nintendo consoles but it just means that it has something for everyone and there are parental controls if you want to block stuff.
Yeah that was nagging at me too, Nintendo might’ve been small and struggling at the time, but it would take a lot more than media outrage to knock them down
I know that I've said this before, but I really hope that they do an episode exploring what would've happened if Call of Duty 4 wasn't set in modern times, and instead continued to take place in World War 2. Here are some points of speculation that I would guess would happen: - The Call of Duty franchise fizzles out due to being unable to set itself apart from the Medal of Honor Series - Activision loses its license to make Tony Hawk games - Crash Bandicoot languishes in obscurity - Blizzard merges with Activision even sooner which causes a bunch of Blizzard's IPs to be crammed with unnecessary microtransactions
The apple presentation couldn't have been a multiplayer demo even if the game were further along because multiplayer was only added to Halo: CE about a week before launch as a bonus game mode. Through 99% of development, it was planned to be single-player only.
I must have lived in the iVerse because I remember seeing a desktop icon for Halo on the iMacs in my computer class in the year 2000. I never clicked on it because whenever we had free time everyone played Nanosaur. Nanosaur ruled.
I feel like I’ve been lied to, clicking on an alternate history video and it’s not Jenna. Sony getting out of games in 2008 means they never approach From Software about a collaboration, which means they never make Bloodborne! Truly this is the darkest timeline.
4:04 More like (at least) two concessions. Microsoft wanted a lead in novel to the game to let players get a feel of the universe at large. The Fall of Reach was written in just six weeks and released just before Halo. While Bungie did use some aspects of the book in Halo 2 and 3, notably the ODSTs, they threw a giant middle finger to Eric Nylund (the author) and Halo fans when Halo: Reach disregarded basically the entire novel.
How exactly would you suggest a small company releases a day-one patch in 1998? Even if you put it on your website, there's no way to inform people who bought the bugged game. I can only see their options being a recall or ignoring it.
I’m not saying this is the most amazing video on RU-vid (AppleVid*) but… Seriously well done. Apple retaining Bungie and Halo was always a fascinating concept, and this really made the most of it in a compelling and (mostly) believable way. Bravo.
i screamed once at the turtleneck reveal and then again at the Asterius cameo, incredible. (More seriously its really interesting to retroactively learn about apple's long history of puritanical censorship, which for some naive reason I'd assumed was a recent development? It's genuinely sort of chilling to think about them having *more* sway over developers. Also, hearing SJ say the word "Bungie" out loud sparked a deeply buried, primal memory from my childhood, of a time when for a brief instant I thought I might finally be exposed to one of these "computer games" that I'd heard so much about, before those dreams were brutally crushed for another two decades.)
and the most wild thing? microsoft's halo 3 edition zune never gets released-instead apple releases their ipod nano with full halo skin design and family friendly gregorian chants pre-installed
If Halo had been a Mac exclusive it would have been another fps among a crowd of them. What made Halo what it was was how it brought the fps genre and multiplayer to consoles. It made a whole new set of experiences that were the domain of the few accessible to tens of millions of more people. None of that would have happened on the Mac, which is kind of a dead-end as a gaming platform.
Can we do one of these where WoW either never came out or failed? This is mostly so I can imagine a world where StarCraft: Ghost was actually prioritized, finished, and released.
I like to think Clayton has always had the power to travel between alternate universes, but chooses to use his powers for Streaming content instead of war.
I think the main thing this video doesn’t quite consider is the Japanese market, which Apple would have a much harder time in and Sony and Nintendo have a home team advantage with (although Sony actually suffered just as hard if not worse in the Japanese market during the ps3 launch). Plus, exclusives aren’t the only things that sell games, so I imagine the ps2 would have slightly more market share. So the Wii U and PS3 launches wouldn’t have been able to kill their respective companies so quickly, I think.
I used to be a Mac fanboy in the 90’s before wholeheartedly switching to Windows. I remember we put our hopes on Bungie to break up the Windows and DOS gaming monopoly after Steve Jobs introduced Halo during the 1999 MacWorld and make MacOS as viable as a PC gaming platform instead of getting the occasional port. After Halo was announced to be an exclusive to Microsoft’s new game console, we called it _”The Great Halo Betrayal.”_
