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Kasz216 on 17 April 2008
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MaximusOptimus said:
Kasz216 said:
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.

 


Did you bother even reading the article you are citing??

The overall Final Fantasy VII campaign is just a portion of PlayStation brand's unprecedented $100 million marketing campaign supporting the PlayStation brand and a multitude of other key titles.

FF7 ads were a portion of the 100 mil. But that's that's only one mistake.

Next question, how would you fit 2 gigs on a 64 cart? Had perhaps 10+ cart release?

Last the article you showed as evidence simply says Sony advertised the game and not that they paid a lot to get it on the PS1.

Square chose PS1 over 64 due to the media, Carts were outdated but ninty didn't get the memo. They have since corrected the mistake but it took them 2 gens to bounce back.


PS1/Saturn multi-platform release. Not PS1/N64.

Regardless the FF7 adds were unprecenedented. It was by far the most advertised game of it's time. That's how companies buy games. They just don't say "Hey here's a lot of money".

They say "Hey we'll pay for your advertising and spend 10 times what you were planning to" and "Hey we'll give you a great distribution deal 10% less then everyone else" "Hey we'll lend you said producers, or sell you said buisness item cheaper"