Ocarina of Time vs Final Fantasy 7

[Mnementh]

Hynad said:

Mnementh said: 

And there is another factor. Final Fantasy was a symbol for Playstation winning over Nintendo. they made advertisements with that. That produces an emotional divide thinking about FF7. People invested with Playstation will see FF better than it is, people invested with Nintendo worse. And as I said, three times as much people had a Playstation. So this helps. I would like to see the split on above poll for europe and America. I have a strong feeling in europe FF wins strongly, as N64 didn't have a strong presence.

The same applies to OoT, even if the reasons may slightly differ.

People invested with Nintendo see OoT better than it is, and those who aren’t see it as worse.

This might seem so, but actually it is not more than usual for first-party games. As FF is 3rd-party and OOT is 1st-party it makes the comparison a bit difficult. Every 1st-party game wins a bit from fans of the platform and loses a bit from fans of competing platforms. But that is true for all 1st-party games and even exclusives. And FF7 was an exclusive. But OOT doesn't win more in this regard as Link to the Past or Crash Bandicoot. For FF it was different. FF was the series that lived and thrived on the NES and SNES. Switching platforms was enormous news and Sony miled it quite a bit. Nobody used OOT for an attack ad on Playstation, but FF was used in advertisement to attack the N64.This shows how immense the effect of the series switching platforms was.

And again, Playstation sold more than three times as much as N64, so that affected more people on the Playstation side of things. So even if the impact of OOT being an exclusive to N64 would've been as big as the effect for FF (which wasn't the case), still three times as much people would be emotionally tugged to think better of FF than OOT this way.