A) Satellaview/Sega Meganet/Telegenesis taking off worldwide to reduce trips outside to buy games for systems one already owns.
2) Early implementation of online multiplayer console games in the 5th generation, possibly even delaying or stunting developments in console 3D graphics.
III) Parents just straight up don't let kids go outside/mingle (there was already the satanic panic and then the fear of kidnappers after all), single player games become superbly dominant.
Four) Couch multiplayer becomes so unthinkable that no console is ever built to support more than 2 controllers ever again.
ɛ) The entire games industry crashes/crunches hard because of supply chain problems.
六) Going outside is considered dangerous enough that portable consoles don't do as well as they did.
0111) An AI developed in a top secret soviet lab to manage airdrop supply chains goes rogue and attempts to crush human civilization starting in Moscow, with giant falling containers full of explosive payloads. A global crack team of scientists, pilots and demolitions experts get together and realize they can just barely defuse all the bombs in time, but only if they intercept the connected crate packages mid-air and guide them into orderly straight lines.
A) Satellaview/Sega Meganet/Telegenesis taking off worldwide to reduce trips outside to buy games for systems one already owns.
2) Early implementation of online multiplayer console games in the 5th generation, possibly even delaying or stunting developments in console 3D graphics.
III) Parents just straight up don't let kids go outside/mingle (there was already the satanic panic and then the fear of kidnappers after all), single player games become superbly dominant.
Four) Couch multiplayer becomes so unthinkable that no console is ever built to support more than 2 controllers ever again.
ɛ) The entire games industry crashes/crunches hard because of supply chain problems.
六) Going outside is considered dangerous enough that portable consoles don't do as well as they did.
0111) An AI developed in a top secret soviet lab to manage airdrop supply chains goes rogue and attempts to crush human civilization starting in Moscow, with giant falling containers full of explosive payloads. A global crack team of scientists, pilots and demolitions experts get together and realize they can just barely defuse all the bombs in time, but only if they intercept the connected crate packages mid-air and guide them into orderly straight lines.