Nintendo banned Square from their offices for 10 years after FFVII went to PlayStation. EDIT: japanese business model is akin to Yakuza

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DonFerrari said:

Wyrdness said:

They didn't actually sign one from what I've seen the companies came to a basic agreement with a contact pending Sony later then took the contract to Nintendo who threw it out leading to a stalled situation as neither company wanted to budge but Sony were confident the deal would go through Nintendo just went with Phillips instead, Sega also threw out the same proposal. You missed the point on the employees part as well he's going on about karma but a whole entire team from SE is now at Nintendo those same employees left SE because their own work was cut down in favour of FFVII.

I think it is hardly probable that they had a working prototype without any kind of deal signed, they would have in the least a DOA or something of sort even more because Sony was touching Nintendo IPs (not games necessarily) to do it.

Have this whole team of SE left the company and joined Nintendo at the time of FFVII? Or are you talking something much more recent?

Xenogears began as Final Fantasy VII but SE felt it was too dark. Cut their budget but still let them make the game but were unable to fully finish the game.  That talent worked on SNES FF games and the Chrono series and left to what would become Monolith and develop the Xenosaga series. No, they didn't just jump to Nintendo. However they were unhappy at Namco I believe and somehow met with Nintendo and liked working with them with Gamecube and DS.