PlayStation still exists only because of Final Fantasy VII.

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Lostplanet22 said:

disolitude said:

outlawauron said:
Wow, this thread is massive fail.

You have a much better case with Gran Turismo

Not true. GT came out long after PS1 was established as the dominant platform. FF7 made the difference when Saturn and PS1 were still duking it out in the trenches. Neither had a substantial lead to justify exclusive development...

 

Long? GT was released like 9 months after FFVII? And magazines where already talking about GT before FFVII was released.

 

1. FF7 made the difference in early 1996 when it was announced.

2. GT sold howmuch it did due to word of mouth. it had decent but not amazing debut. We only have Japanese week by week data but mind you it sold 673,618 in japan first week. Versus 2,025,834. Which one do you think had more hype.

The bottom line is, PS1 would have still won that gen as that gen was all about $$$, and sony had most of it. They could buy Psygnosis, naughty dog and any other top of the line developer. But Sega would have had much larger chunk if FF7 was announced for its console...In japan especially where it would have owned all.