FF IX > FF VII

[Torillian]

I just don't understand the reasoning that FFVII is so popular because it was the first RPG people played, and people who played RPG's before that don't see it as that great, but the fact remains that the game was and is hugely popular in Japan (they sell soda with FFVII characters on em, it's nuts)...and can you really tell me that Japan didn't have any popular RPG's before FFVII as well?