Quote Originally Posted by sparkie
Whether it "did better" could be debated. Statistics are complicated, not black and white. I've seen charts where FFVII is higher and others where FFVIII is. FFVII also has an advantage because it's older. But I don't know anything so don't yell at me.
No, VII outsold VIII by a wide margin. It's initial sales alone I believe beat VIII's cumulative sales. We're talking by the millions here. The two games werent released far enough apart to have inflation make much of a difference, and I'm pretty sure it went by copies sold and not money made.

I have a page saved at home, but I'm not at home so I cant post it. But I just want to add that I'm not saying this as a rabid VII fan, it's not at all one of my favorite games. I just understand why Square chose it, especially given it's much larger, rabid fanbase. VIII has it, but I think VII's fanbase is larger.