| padib said: I think you're bang on, and obviously from there it escalated to more and then more reasons came in, like it is in a bad breakup where all your faults suddenly appear after you've broken up lol. So, I think you're right, and then more came up, but I was just saying that FF and lots of other franchises were on Nintendo, it was weird for us to see them on Playstation, but there were reasons. Now, there would be reasons the game would come out on 3DS, on of those being that Square-Enix has been making friends with Ninty with the GBA and even more the DS. Do you remember the time when even the old Final Fantasies (which Nintendo published) weren't even appearing on the Gameboy, and went directly to the Wonderswan?? Those days were killer for Ninty fans. I'm mosly saying, thankfully, things have changed for the better, no more unnecessary ostracising of Ninty. |
Yeah, I can understand why it would be weird for a fan of older FF games to see them on Playstation. Your description of what happened is pretty perfect to be honest.
Square do seem to be supporting Nintendo a lot but it's mainly with older style games and remakes of the 2D FF's. Final Fantasy VII literally has a franchise of its own and it has a huge following on Playstation, it's like the FF fans are divided, Final Fantasy I - VI don't seem out of place when they are remade on a Nintendo handheld, but the idea of Final Fantasy VII being on the 3DS seems really odd.
| padib said: So, here is the deal. Most pre-VII Final Fantasy games were published by Square, for the exception of Final Fantasy 1, which was published by Nintendo in NA only. Square and Nintendo were very close actually, hence their going apart being so bitter. As a matter of fact, Miyamoto led dev teams at square when they co-developed Super Mario RPG. And it was a huge deal back then for Nintendo to let another company handle its main IPs, especially Mario. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_RPG:_Legend_of_the_Seven_Stars#Development Here's a really interesting article. Yamauchi's vehemence is the most striking one on the matter: |
Saying that Nintendo and Square weren't close was a real shot in the dark to be honest, I would have thought Nintendo would have made them first party devs if they were.
I guess Final Fantasy jumping to Playstation back in the day was a bigger deal than I thought it was.
