Olympic games opening ceremony music

[Glenfiddich]

Music from various video games was played at the opening ceremony.
Do we know if Music from FF14 was involved?

[Krokov]

I don't know about 14, list I saw if they saw says music from Final Fantasy 12 and the FF main theme was played.

[ForctyusGold]

i think i heared FF intro and some from Nier

[gotaname1]

All I know is that Final Fantasy's official twitter posted this
https://twitter.com/FinalFantasy/sta...44854238367745

[Halivel]

There were main FF theme and victory fanfare. The second one we all know in FF14 as well.

The list of music that was used:
https://twitter.com/aitaikimochi/sta...828475908?s=20

[GrizzlyTank]

There were main FF theme and victory fanfare. The second one we all know in FF14 as well.

The list of music that was used:
https://twitter.com/aitaikimochi/sta...828475908?s=20

Kind of surprised that there is no Nintendo music in that line-up.

[Katie_Kitty]

Kind of surprised that there is no Nintendo music in that line-up.

Nintendo probably didn't offer to pay enough lol

[Puremallace]

Kind of surprised that there is no Nintendo music in that line-up.

Nintendo would probably DMCA them and have the Olympics taken down.

[Rhus]

I wanna be the very best…

[MoofiaBossVal]

I wanna be the very best…

That would've been great but it had no chance of appearing, as it was an English only song. The Japanese OP was completely different. The English OP is famous in America but I'm not sure it is anywhere near as much in Japan. One of the most famous Japanese anime songs in the history of ever is Butterfly, the Japanese OP of Digimon Adventure, but nobody in the West has ever heard of it (again, the West got a different song, to the aggravation of many parents).

I think it's neat how video games are so ingrained into Japan's culture that they do something like this. "We're nerds and we're proud of it!" I respect that. That is truly something special.

From my limited understanding, they don't think it's special. It's just good music. It's the West that always had this sort of inferiority complex about video games. "Shadow of the Colossus will finally prove that video games are art!" and such. I don't think that's a big deal over there.