Nintendo What-If? #4

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Ljink96 said:

There was Jurassic Park years before the Pixar animations. 

That was a film with some CGI in it the actors weren't computer generated, just some props and dinosaurs....pixar's toy story was the first FULL length fully 3D animated without any real world assets...Final Fantasy VII was the first video game to do something on that scale...ever. They were the first to make CGI cutscenes a thing in video games. We're talking about the impact that FFVII had on the gaming industry as a whole because of what Square introduced with it. I'm a 3D graphics major, most of my professors and colleagues note Final Fantasy VII-IX on the PSone and Toy Story for the reason they wanted to get into 3D. That game changed the gaming industry, we still see its effects today, and it would have make the 64 more popular than it was.

take a look at this, 

It really shows how new the tech was and for FFVII to be utilizing similar tech around the same time just for a videogame....that was groundbreaking.

Toy Story and FFVII may have been technically more advanced, but I considered Jurassic Park more impressive. 

I don't know if N64 had been more popular if it had CGI animations in it's games. There were lots of people like me, who prefer animations done by the game engine, but on the other hand, a number of popular PSX games were advertised with their animations. In the end, this wasn't the problem N64 had, so it's doubtful it had made a difference.