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Forums - Sony - PlayStation still exists only because of Final Fantasy VII.

Seraphic_Sixaxis on 16 April 2009
disolitude said:
hatmoza 2.0 said:

"Development of Final Fantasy VII began in 1994 and the game was originally intended for the SNES , but it was later moved to the Nintendo 64 . As the system's cartridges lacked space, Square decided to release the game for Sony's PlayStation instead." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy_7

It was a coin toss between the Playstation and the Sega Saturn .If Soft decided to put their masterpiece on the Saturn, Sony's reign of dominance that lasted for over a decade would have been cut short with Sega taking its place .

Theres no "if" for Nintendo they stubbornly wanted to stick to cartridges and.....well the rest as you all know is history.

Square announced on 01/12/1996 it would be developing Final Fantasy VII for the Play Station

Sega Saturn was released 05/11/1995

Sony PlayStation was released 12/03/1994

 

"Sega Saturn was released 05/11/1995" - Wrong, saturn was released 1 week before PS1 in Japan.

Also, Sega Saturn and PS1 were neck and neck in Japan before FF7 came out, so I actually agree with the rest of the post. Had it been announced for the saturn, PS1 would have still won that gen, but saturn would have been a close second and would have owned Japan.

Would have been 70 mil for ps1, 50 mil for saturn, 30 mil for n64.

 

Well said.