The PS1: The Biggest Turnaround in Console History?

[DonFerrari]

Shadow1980 said:

DonFerrari said:

By your own thread I would say FF VII was bigger than Halo 1.

Maybe. The four most important games ever—one for each brand—in terms of putting a console brand on the map are Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy VII, and Halo: CE. FFVII had a bigger immediate impact than Halo to be sure. But Halo could very well have kept the Xbox from being an abject failure that would have made the GC's sales look good by comparison. Aside from Halo, the Xbox had precious little to differentiate itself from the PS2 in its first few months. Yeah, it also had DOA3 and PGR, but those weren't anywhere close to being as big as Halo. The Xbox's next notable "exclusive" (which also came to PC) was Morrowind in June 2002, and then Splinter Cell as a timed exclusive in November. That's how slim the pickings were for the Xbox early on in the exclusives deparment. Without Halo the Xbox could have failed miserably.

But yeah, FFVII was definitely a bigger system-seller than Halo, at least in the U.S. and apparently also Japan. We're talking about a system averaging maybe 160k units a month in the U.S. suddenly growing to over 350k, and while it didn't continue shifting hardware all on its lonesome it did open the floodgates. It put the spotlight squarely (heh) on the PS1, and the N64 would never be able to catch back up.

Well so we could say FF VII was the system seller (and even though PS1 had a lot of other games they wouldn't even be know if not for the people that bought them after FF VII make the system relevant), and Halo system floater (that for the 3rd gen could be said to be what made Xbox stay afloat on original and one and also gave confidence for X360).

AZWification said:

DonFerrari said:

Shadow1980 said:

Halo, man. That game was absolutely huge, and probably the most important launch title since SMB was released alongside the NES over 16 years previous. IIRC something like half of all OXboxes sold in the first six months or so had a copy of Halo attached to them. However, the Xbox was flat YoY in the U.S. in 2003, while the GC grew almost 40%, thus allowing the GC to be the overall winner that year.

By your own thread I would say FF VII was bigger than Halo 1.

FF7 wasn't a launch title though..

But if he is talking about NES, SMB wasn't a launch title as far as I know, unless for Murica it have been.