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jarrod on 22 February 2010
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EdStation3 said:
jarrod said:

 

lol, no.  Sony got FF (and Square) by offering a sweetheart western publishing and advertising deal.  ROM cost concerns were an issue with N64 (though that would've been somewhat mitigated with the 64DD, which is what Zelda and Dragon Quest were originally planned to use), but Sony actually actively courted them and with HUGE sums.  FFVII's US ad campaign alone was muli-millions and basically unheard of in gaming at the time.  If Square had just wanted to go to the leading CD-ROM format at the time, FFVII would've been a Saturn game...

Sony practically invented 3rd party "moneyhatting" in the games space.  Not it's come to bite them in the ass.  Karma.


No...Square left Nintendo because they put last gen storage medium which didn't allow developers to develop what they wanted...

 

Sources:

http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/the-making-of-final-fantasy-vii

http://www.lostlevels.org/200510/

"Square was also accused of signing a deal with Sony to produce games exclusively for Sony consoles.

Most of these claims were nothing more than rumors that were spawned as the result of some shoddy journalism; however, many people accepted these rumors as fact, and these faux facts were perpetuated as being truths."

Yeah...so for the record: MS fanboy trying to justify their bribing over companies by saying Sony paid off Square can stop their lying now...

I know it feels good lying about Sony and Final Fantasy to make the spinless take over of Rare seem okay.

 

The ad campaign isn't money hatting since the heavy ads didn't start until the game was well into development...

 

Saturn didn't get it becasue of their ughhh....premature....console dropping, they pissed off a lot of 3rd parties by dropping consoles after erm...2 year and 4 year life cycles...32X and Saturn

lol.  Of course the western deal was in place ahead of time, it was likely the main reason FFVII went to PlayStation over Saturn.  Saturn was actually leading sales in Japan until the FFVII announcement, if Square wanted to go to the leading CD-ROM system, they should've gone to Saturn.  Read your own source, Edge mentions the details of the Nintendo/Square split are still "yet to be explained" and they called Kitase's take of choosing PS1 for CD-ROM "predictably diplomatic".

Also L.O.L. at "spineless takeover of Rare".  If anything, Microsoft got swindled in that deal by the Stampers and Nintendo. Nintendo knew Rare was a sinking ship, and got a nice payout to let Microsoft take out their garbage for them. ;)