| Andir said: I do remember something about Final Fantasy moving off the SNES to the Playstation... I was pissed at them for doing it and the only reason I remember reading was that the lead designer wanted to use video and other affects to tell his story in new media instead of another tile based version (and required more space than the old cartridge would handle.) But as you say, news like that is hard to dig up. |
The story goes that Final Fantasy VII was supposed to be the first 3D foray for Square. A budget of $45 million was assigned to develop assets. Square used SGI workstations to create a tech demo which featured polygon-based 3D renderings of characters from Final Fantasy VI in a real-time battle and incorporated interactive elements. The use of pre-rendered backgrounds and cut-scenes further increased the meory requireents.
Square was resigned to the fact that it would require several cds to make full justice of their visions. Once Nintendo announced that N64 would use Carts, prolonged negotiations were held between Square and Nintendo. Square tried to reason with Nintendo about the benefits of a CD-Rom based console. Somewhere during this stae, negotions broke down and their relationship was re reaching a stage of no return.
Once Play Station was announced as the Lead platform, Square offered the N64 another version in keeping with its hardware. Hiroshi Yamauchi was so incensed with Square "betrayal" that he snapped all ties with Square and he refused to allow them to workon any N64 titles.
The rest is history..
Heeeeyyyy!!!! <Snap>
