yushire said:
Resident_Hazard said:
yushire said:
But is the original Playstation succeeds well because of FFVII right?
Its like yeah, we're winning but here is the game that we can say we already dominate the war, just like what Final fantasy VII did with the PSX |
Wrong. The original Playstation took off higher because of FFVII, no doubt, but it had countless higher quality titles that propelled it ahead--it had the Tekken series, Ridge Racer, Twisted Metal, and so forth. It came out before the N64 and was cheaper and easier to work with (for developers) than the Saturn and the N64. The original Playstation won for a variety of reasons. FFVII was just a contributor to that success--it didn't single-handedly make it.
A system needs more than one game to be successful. The N64 had Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye007, the good Perfect Dark, and Super Mario 64 and still couldn't topple the Playstation.
Nights didn't save the Saturn, Shenmue didn't save the Dreamcast. Alien vs Predator and Tempest 2000 didn't save the Jaguar.
It took about a year and a half for developers and publishers to start churning out high-quality exclusives for the DS and they started jumping on board with that thing once they saw how popular it was. The same is true of the Wii, the devs and publishers came on board a bit late, but they're on board. The games they started when they signed on to the Wii in late 2006 and early 2007 will start showing up later this year and next year. There will be a plethora of titles flooding the Wii to aid it's success. What it needs is a few really solid, exclusive, 3rd party efforts to sell astronomically on the system for some of the more bitter hardcore gamers to take notice. Those are the hold-outs the Wii needs to snag.
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But its FFVII that make the PSX make it on the top and dominate console war though, I mean, its FINAL FANTASY, its a Nintendo console game we knew how large impact that was to Nintendo and the market at that time.
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I'm not saying that FFVII didn't have a major impact on the PS1 (I remember when it was the PSX), because it did. But it took a lot more than just that to sell the thing. If that's all it had, it would never have so thouroughly defeated the N64. Nintendo still had Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and it didn't win with that. Many people bought a PS1 before FFVII and many bought it after. FFVII was no turning point or savior, just a major killer app. I remember buying my PS1 for Tekken 3. I never even owned FFVII. One game does not make or break a system. It never has.
