Final Fantasy Creator Jokes That He "Cheated On Nintendo" With PlayStation

But it did have a lasting effect. Nintendo and Square grew bitter for half a decade before they finally started working together again at around 2002. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was the result of their renewed friendship.

Well karma did come back to bite him later on for doing that. While the games like Final Fantasy VII-X were doing good, he lost millions in revenues and stocks due to that awful stinker known as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Also Final Fantasy then started going downhill after Final Fantasy XI, Square did manage to survive due to merging with Enix and finally coming back to Nintendo again with remakes of old FF games on GBA and Crystal Chronicles being a hit for them but they will never become Nintendo's most reliable partner ever again. They are still partner in a way but not as loyal partner as before.

Once a cheater always a cheater.

well if nintendo agreed to let sony develop a cd rom for nintendo sony would never have gone on it's own and make one for there own console..

Thanks to the Asian physical release of Final Fantasy VII on Switch, the game can now be bought on a cartridge that doesn't cost $1200. Yet.

I remember this so well, and what happened, or ultimately DIDN’T happen, between Nintendo and Sony. Back in the good ol’ days of magazines, I personally loved C&VG magazine 😊

@AmplifyMJ I was a Gamepro and then later on EGM reader. Good times were had with both.
The thrill of going to a store to buy the latest magazine and actually reading all the news is something I can't quite replicate nowadays.

So did almost everyone else. The PS1 was a hot little number in the mid-to-late 90s. Quite the homewrecker.

Man, that was quite the era.

@UNCLDNS Not strictly true. The main reason Nintendo broke off the deal with Sony was because there was a part of the contract where, had Nintendo had not read it through, that would have given Sony the rights/license to make games based on Nintendo IP without their agreement. Nintendo, not being keen on that, ended the deal there and then and paired up with Philips (who admittedly weren't great with the IP either)

Long story short and in a poor analogy, Nintendo did call off the wedding at the last minute to Sonys surprise but it turns out Nintendo learned Sony had said some stuff about Nintendo's daughter at the stag do. Neither side comes out well but it's for the best the partnership never happened

I wonder what the alternate gaming history looks like where Nintendo moved forward with the PlayStation. Perhaps Sega systems are still around?

Thats ok. Nintendo have a history of cheating.

I remember what a HUGE deal it was when FF7 went over to the PlayStation. What an exciting time in gaming! FF7 is the reason why I asked for a PlayStation for Xmas in 97. Too bad I didn't like FF7. 😆 I couldn't get the hang of turn based battles. THEY DROVE ME NUTS! 😆 Once my party kept getting put to sleep by those frogs, I was DONE! 😆 I also got Crash 2. Had a good time! I was surprised to see so many people talking about the difficulty when the remake (trilogy) was announced. I never found it frustrating. It was hard but always fun.

Just bough ff7 original on switch a couple of days ago, already played and finished the original psone game way back then, can't wait to replay this again on my switch 😃

and now, and i say this as an Xbox fan that also absolutely adores FF, Xbox gets the sloppy seconds, decades later lmao

oh well, more FF for more players will always be a good thing!

Nintendo cheated on Playstation with Philips.

Well, we ended up getting the best Final Fantasy game anyway.

Like said, Nintendo did Sony dirty first.

Thankful for them though. The Playstation was FANTASTIC and VERY few of the games on it would have existed on a Nintendo platform.