5/20/2023 0 Comments N64 size delicious libraryNintendo has never really gotten along with third parties though. Now if the N64 had a CD-ROM? I think SquareSoft still goes over to Sony because I remember reading how there was a big falling out between the 2 companies during this stage, partly to do with format decisions but there were other underlying currents that caused the split beyond just the format. Was the perfect JRPG marketed toward the right audience at just the right time on just the right system. ![]() Corporate corruption, destruction of nature and the ecosystem, sucking the planet dry of its natural resources, etc. It was dark, it was mature, and it hit on a lot of issues in peoples minds during that era. I think FFVII sold so well during that era because it did not have that classic early Cartoonish / Anime color palette and graphic style. They had grown out of their grade school ages and were now 15-21 years old and Sony was marketing to that group. FFVII fit in perfectly with Sony's more mature themed console and the whole idea of marketing to what gamers were at the time. It signaled Sony as being a serious player in the console business. What it really signaled was a shift in the development community and it showed that even the biggest software developers were working on the console. Especially here in the states and anywhere outside of Japan really. Yeah I think it is a bit of a misconception to say Final Fantasy VII changed everything. Halo 1 single handedly kept Xbox alive and put it on everyone's radar. Final Fantasy VII did this for Playstation. Original Super Mario Bros did this for nintendo, Pokemon did this for gameboy. Nintendo is always talking about how one game can change everything for a console. The entire industry would be completely different. Microsoft wouldn't have released Xbox and tried to steal Sony's thunder. Final Fantasy wouldn't have been multiplatform, because until FF13 they were always exclusive to one console.ĭreamcast wouldn't have been killed so early because PS2 hype. N64 could have had the best of both worlds, incredible party games and incredible single player with deep moving stories, and Playstation might not still be around. I believe if Nintendo 64 would have had gone with the CD format, Final Fantasy VII would have still been on N64. While Playstation became an RPG monster machine and with many great single player story games. So the system became known for it's shooters and multiplayer games and exellent Nintendo 1st Party games. When Goldeneye released it showed 1st person shooters could be done well on console and the multiplayer 4 player split screen made the N64 a party machine. So the system had big droughts between game releases, with nothing to fill in the gaps. While the system was awesome, Mario 64 was really the only game worth playing for a large part of the first gaming year. N64 when released had Mario 64, that revolutionized 3D gaming and created the 3D camera system, showed what analog controls could offer, and most of all blew peoples minds. ![]() Because of Final Fantasy VII, all eyes were on Playstation. Saturn's issue was that it was a bitch to develop for because the hardware was too complex, N64 was very hard to develop for as well, but was also limited with carts. 3rd parties saw what could be done and saw how well the system was selling, they all abandoned Nintendo and jumped on to Sony's ship and never looked back. When people saw the FMVs and movie like quality it offered, they were blown away. Well, Final Fantasy VII was released, it changed everything. Better price, lack of censorship, data space, easy system to develop for, and said they said fuck Nintendo. When N64 was announced to be with cartage format, Square was like well damn, now we can't do what we want with that kind of limited data. They had huge vision for what to do with FMVs and the CD format. Square soft was developing FF VII initially for N64 probably on computers. This was always my understanding of what happened.
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