Game of their respective generation and reasons why

[Farsala]

KLAMarine said:

Farsala said:
Since I enjoy sales so much I have to disagree with your choices with Super Mario 64 and Halo.

FFVII: Yet another successful competitor joins due to this one game. PS1 had a very slow start until this game, and then it ends up dominating the generation, spawning many more successful Sony consoles.

You claim you enjoy sales so much but if this site is to be believed, SM64 sold more than FF7. 11.89 million versus 9.72 million, respectively.

What would you make of this?

As I said FFVII basically caused the PS1 to outsell the N64. SM64 might have helped N64 greatly, but FFVII helped more. It was a turning point in the sales competition so to speak.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=7679072

If TLDR, should read the 4th graph onwards.