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.

Nintendo cheated on Sony. Without Nintendo, the Playstation would not have existed. Then they fell out with Squaresoft and perhaps the success of the Playstation wouldn't have been so great without an exclusive FF. So he shouldn't feel guilty, Nintendo f-ed it up.

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 store to buy the lastest 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