Ask Gamestop: FFXIII, Fishy! Fishy!

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Kasz216 said:

As for the CD vs cartridge thing. While the official reason... if it was the true reason FF7 would of been multi-plat with Sega Saturn... which was a better and easier to program for system, a port would of been nothing.

Sony made FF7 the focal point of an advertising campaign that costs hundreds of millions of dollars.

That was what made Square take the jump.  It's also what made FF7 so popular.

 

There is a rumor that Square got a discount on the production cost of the CD-Roms by Sony so that they wouldn't release it on the Saturn...  Which could be true because Shiochiro Irimajiri, the president of Sega, and Tomoyuki Takechi, president of Squaresoft, grew up in the same city and are childhood friends... so everybody expected then it would go to the Saturn.. Sony bribed Squaresoft..