Dates and moments on which there was a change in console wars...

[Kasz216]

akuma587 said:

disolitude said:

Kasz216 said:
FF7 came to the PS1 because Sony bought FF7.

They pumped in MASSIVE amounts of money for that game.

Wasn't that the deal where Sony gave them the building Squaresoft worked in? Or was that the bailout after Spirits Within?

Does anyone know if this is true? I was never a final fantasy fan nor did i own a ps1 at that time to know aht Sony was doing with their cash...I was saturn all the way :)

Without a link, its not true.

So you want me to dig up old reports about things that are mostly common knowledge from the PS1 days.

Well here we go anyway... 100 Million spent on the game just for advertising... for North America only... which was quite the unprecidented record... let alone for a third party release.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_August_27/ai_19701566

It wouldn't of been on N64, however a multiplatform release wouldn't of been out of the question.

Hell 100 Million is still a lot for advertising.