Hironobu Sakaguchi says he "cheated" on Nintendo when bringing Final Fantasy 7 to the PlayStation instead of the SNES or Nintendo 64 like all the other fan-favorite JRPGs that came before it.
While Final Fantasy's earlier history is more closely tied to Nintendo's raft of earlier consoles, the demands of FF7 necessitated a switch-up – the PlayStation's CD-ROM format did what the SNES and Nintendo 64's cartridges could not. The story is well-told by now, though Sakaguchi has been looking back on that time in a recent interview and with plenty of fondness for both Nintendo and Sony.
