Alternate history: Sony don't join the console race

[The_Yoda]

pokoko said:

Soundwave said:

Sega was marketing for teenagers for years already by this point. Even Nintendo was following suit. 

And the funny thing about the above is Final Fantasy was thought of as a Nintendo franchise ... so Sony created something new ... by taking something Nintendo already had? lol. 

Did I say Final Fantasy was a new franchise?  Where did I say that?  Nowhere?  Obviously, I did not.  Also obvious is the fact that it doesn't matter in the slightest.

On the other hand, most people in the west did not think of Final Fantasy as a Nintendo franchise because they didn't think about it at all.  For the vast majority, FF7 was the first time they played the series or even heard about it.

It all depended on the circles you ran in I guess.  I started gaming with the 2600 and there was never a stigma around gaming being for kids in my neck of the woods.  You may have just had assholes for peers.

It is also possible i am part of a sub-set but Final Fantasy was very much ubiquitous with Nintendo up until Sony stole them away (cough Nintendo were dicks to quite a few third parties back then). I cannot really speak to that being the case with the majority of my peers at the time since Final Fantasy was not a couch co-op series.