The 'What if' gaming thread

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Something that just occurred to me. If Atari didn't screw up with the gaming console and had put time and effort into the E.T game. Would the console gaming industry be the same if Nintendo didn't pick up the pieces that Atari broke and put the gaming console concept on the map?

Then the crash would've happened a bit later and Nintendo wouldn't have been as big as they are. E.T. was only one of the many reasons for the crash, the fact you had about 20 different consoles to choose from with no difference in any and people were in one way "growing" out of this video game trend so they didn't care much.