Thread Description: In this series of posts I will be highlighting an older game (64 bit era and before) that is highly revered, and looking at why it sold the way it did. In the original post there will be a couple of polls, one which asks what was the most important factor in determining the games total sales, and a second question asking why it is that game is still remembered and talked about today.  I'm calling these "…of the Day" threads, but even if it is not the same day feel free to continue to comment in the thread. With the thread description out the way here is today's Retro Game Sales Analysis of the Day...

Game of the Day

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Final Fantasy VII

Description: Final Fantasy VII released for the Playstation system 1997 and went on to sell 9.72 million copies.  This is massive, especially for a genre that typically did not have huge success outside of Japan. So why is it that Final Fantasy VII sold so well, and why is it still so fondly remembered by gamers? Vote in the polls, then leave a comment and let us know what you think.

Yesterday was the debut of the “Retro Sales Game of the Day” threads and it didn’t spark much interest compared to my other threads.  That’s why I picked Final Fantasy VII for today’s game, because I figure not many games will get as much interest.  But if anyone has any suggestions besides the choice of game to feature, to increase the interest in this series of threads please let me know.

It seems like there is not a lot of interest in these threads.  But I'll try one more time.  I'm using the same answer choices in each poll in these threads because I thought it would be interesting to compare the # of responses between games. So as you can see today's game Final Fantasy VII, has the most votes for it being a high quality game, and yesterday's Super Mario Bros has the most for "became a cultural phenomenon".  Does that seem accurate to you?  If the polls in both threads get significantly more votes, I'll update the charts again later.

Ok, I'm going to bump this thread one more time in an attempt to get people to talk. There are 25 votes in each poll, but no comments. I thought I could make a thread with Final Fantasy VII in the title and have a blank original post and get at least a few comments.

I am interested that since posting the chart the "it became a cultural phenomenon" option has almost caught up with "the high quality of the game" option. Was Final Fantasy VII really a cultural phenomenon? In my mind that means something that many people not just gamers are familiar with, and I'm not sure that every happened with the Final Fantasy franchise. Maybe I just missed it though.

You did forgot one option on Why is so highly remembered, is because it was their first RPG

FFVII is more of a cultural phenom than Sonic ever was. 10 million in sales is nothing to downplay!