Game of their respective generation and reasons why

[KLAMarine]

Ka-pi96 said:

KLAMarine said:

Actually, I don't think the graph you linked is correct. FF7, according to vgchartz, released in January of 1997, not September 1997 as depicted on the graph. The sales trend doesn't change much following FF7's release in January. I think you might be giving FF7 too much credit and not enough to games like Gran Turismo which released in Japan December 1997. One should also consider releases like Tomb Raider 2, Grand Theft Auto, Parappa, and Crash 2 which are much closer to the spike than FF7 was.

January was only Japan. September was the US release date. Then November in Europe.

Ah, I see. Still, we don't see much the month of September after FF7's release and other very notable games released alongside it right before the spike. FF7 didn't do it alone.