Board Thread:Timeline Disscussions/@comment-78.69.12.247-20121220131920/@comment-665531-20121220185804

Universal could let Naughty Dog go at a high price and use the money to fund new studios. They might even be able to hold onto rights for the series and task a different team to it. The series would go downhill, but it would only have to last until Universal found another good studio to make high quality licensed games or even a new IP.

I'll submit; Sega would have had the resources to make a handheld. I'm not sure if they would, but it's a possibility. The question is, would the Titan have the power to ensure Sega's handheld legacy would continue? Remember, the GBA basically survived on Mario and Pokemon games, and Sega would not necessarily have anything to counter that.

Panzer Dragoon may or may not still be an ongoing series in this universe; Sega seems more willing to abandon old IPs than Nintendo, though not as much as Sony. The series's biggest problem may be the irrelevance of on-rails shooters after Goldeneye entered the scene, though that of course could have been countered by the RPG elements in Saga. Then again, according to VGChartz, Saga wasn't even that popular in Japan compared to other series entries.

I suspect that the Sega Technical Institute would still have been dissolved, with some members being made parts of other divisions.

tl;dr: Naughty Dog goes Sega but Crash doesn't, the Titan could have existed, but didn't have to, Panzer Dragoon may have survived, but there are good reasons to suspect otherwise, and STI was doomed.

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