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that Final Fantasy VII was originally planned for the Nintendo 64, but its cartridge-based system couldn t handle what they wanted the game to do and Nintendo refused to listen to Square Enix advice of using CD-ROMs, so they jumped ship to the then in development Sony Playstation

Oct 5, 2019•1 min read

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