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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: 15th anniversary interview in Famitsu. Polygon's Oral History of FFVII The Making of Final Fantasy VII – Retro Gamer Lots of info on GSLA, but not sure on reliability. An english translation is available on shmuplations Interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi at PAX 2014. Some discussion about FFVII Johnston, Chris (September 25, 1997). "Half a Million Clouds". GameSpot. Archived from the original on March 1, 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20000308194020/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_09/09_fantasynum/index.html https://archive.org/details/edgeuk123/page/n85 Sales breakdown "Save Aeris", essay about Aeris' legacy 20th anniversary retrospective 1998 PC port retrospective https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89330946/newsday-nassau-edition/ https://archive.org/details/game-hihyou-vol.-08-game-magazine-scan-jp/page/n6/mode/2up Bickerton, Andy (2023-06-14). "We ranked the top 10 'Final Fantasy' mainline games, ahead of XVI's release". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2023-06-18. https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/12/homebrew-dev-gets-final-fantasy-vii-running-on-sega-saturn (homebrew Sega Saturn port) NYtimes on Aerith's death and if it will be in ff7remake https://www.timeextension.com/features/interview-the-st-hit-the-fan-ex-sony-producer-talks-playstation-and-final-fantasy-viis-localization-nightmare https://automaton-media.com/en/news/final-fantasy-7-art-director-reminisces-about-the-games-early-days-as-a-2d-pixel-art-prototype/

Hey Final Fantasy keepers, Panini here. I would like to direct your attention to the second paragraph of the Paper Mario series' development section. It talks about what Nintendo did after Final Fantasy VII was taken to Playstation; long story short, Paper Mario came to be because of it. Is it worth mentioning here somewhere? Panini!^🥪 11:38, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, looks like Nintendo were already planning for Paper Mario's development--Square just turned down their offer to develop it because of work on FF7. A sentence or two could be illuminating and provide extra context. 2601:346:C281:79F0:1D1E:4707:EBAD:4C5F (talk) 05:16, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• https://www.vg247.com/final-fantasy-7-26-anniversary-kitase-interview Sergecross73 msg me 16:54, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I was looking at the PC sales for Final Fantasy 7 and it says that sales exceeded 1 million units. Strangely enough, I cannot find any data to corroborate this claim from third party sources outside of that link. All sources which show PC platform sales from January to December do not show Final Fantasy 7 listed anywhere.MutedL (talk) 00:18, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]