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KLAMarine on 13 March 2016
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Farsala 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.

^Ka-pi96 post.

Japans spike was 1997 and corresponds to FFVII releasing so early, US spike was holidays 97+98 corresponding with FFVII releasing so late in 97, and Europe had a spike in 1998 for FFVII, but had a bigger spike for 1999 due to their preference for GT.

Like I told Ka-pi, 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. It would be foolish to attribute the spike to FF7 alone.