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Multi-Platform Games You Associate with a Particular Platform - Moonface - Jul 15th, 2026
I just saw a trailer for a Katamari game coming out soon for Switch 2, and not knowing much about that series I had been under the impression it was a Sony IP only to learn it actually belongs to Bandai Namco and also never exclusive to PlayStation (even if the other earlier games came out on mobile at a time mobile gaming was an afterthought). It got me thinking about other games that have never been exclusive to a platform, but are heavily associated with one as if they were exclusive to them for a time.
The most famous example will probably be Final Fantasy, which a lot of people probably view as a PlayStation series despite not being heavily associated with the platform for anything before FF7.
Another one that I always consider as a PlayStation series is Tomb Raider, even though it was always released simultaneously on both PS1 and PC until 2006's Tomb Raider: Legend when the series expanded to include Xbox and Nintendo consoles.
RE: Multi-Platform Games You Associate with a Particular Platform - Maniakkid25 - Jul 15th, 2026
(Jul 15th, 2026, 07:23 PM)Moonface Wrote:
That would probably be because Sony consoles didn't exist when FF1-6 came out. Before then, Square/SquareSoft was a Nintendo series, bay-bee! Funnily enough, Square originally planned for FF7 to be on the then-next Nintendo console (the N64), only to find out that it was going to be another cartridge-based console, and walked out on that basis alone. Cartridges just didn't have the capacity to meet their demands compared to that new-fangled "CD-ROM" technology everyone was getting hyped over.
Resident Evil is probably a strong contender for this sort of thing for Playstation. While games did come out on other consoles, Resident Evil was biggest on the Playstation consoles until Resident Evil 4 came along. SMT is another example; while starting on Nintendo consoles, they didn't come to the West until the Playstation was a thing, and mostly released on those consoles until SMT 4 on the 3DS, so most Westerners would probably associate them with Sony. Which is peak irony, because they're owned by SEGA now, a former hardware manufacturer.