Will Final Fantasy VII Remake release on consoles other than PS4? Yes, of course it will - eventually. The folks over at Xbox Germany clearly didn't get that memo, though, because it has just tried to will an Xbox One release date into existence via a Facebook post.
The post has since been deleted, but here's a screenshot for proof:
Every piece of marketing material for the game states that it will release first on PS4, without any other mention of rival platforms - meaning that a launch on Microsoft's system on the same day as PS4 is all but impossible. Confirming the mistake was Maxi Graff, marketing communications and social lead over at Microsoft, who said in a tweet: "Hey. We did an internal mistake in the Social Team. We took the video off immediately. Sorry, no announcement on our side. Big apologies for this."
So there we have it, Xbox Germany jumped the gun by six months or something in that ballpark. In fact, both Sony's and Microsoft's next-generation systems will most likely already be on the market by the time you can play Final Fantasy VII Remake anywhere else. Cheers timed exclusivity!
[source resetera.com]
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10 hours into the original and just arrived at Costa Del Sol. Loving this version even if the graphics are dated but the potential for the remake to be mind blowing is is strong. Love these characters and the world they inhabit!
vorbestellung storniert.
Not really a cock up is it, interested XB owners can sit tight now.
It is absolutely mad that we’ll be playing this in March though.
@kyleforrester87 I know right. I was of the opinion that it was going to be this generation's The Last Guardian, now here we are mere months away from its initial release.
Now that episodic, likely cross-generational non-scheduled release schedule though...
@Turismo4GT yeah, the episodic good or bad thing has been done to death, I think that obviously it would be ideal if it was 1 instalment but I can happily accept episodic if they a) represent value for money and b) it gets it in to my disc drive already and not pushed to some 202X release date.
Exclusivity can cover a whole generation. Its entirely possible that FFvii will never launch on 'XB1' but could be a launch game on the next Xbox for example. We had a case of that at the start of this with Injustice (the DC Fighting Game) that released on both XB360 and PS3 but, for this generation, Sony bought exclusivity so Injustice has never released on XB1, 2 has but not the first.
Time will tell of course and we will see what happens as and when. I am not saying that it will be a generational exclusive, but saying that it could be as 1 of the options. It may never come to an Xbox or will after a certain time has elapsed too but its also possible that Sony has the exclusivity for this 'generation' only too.
@JoeBlogs The platform holder is the only winner. Deals like that aren't really for us.
@JoeBlogs I think it's more about publicly lying and false marketing than timed exclusivity per se, which is cancerous as hell.
Nein, nein, nein! Das ist nicht gut!
Xbox and PlayStation DACH are Deutschland, Austria and Switzerland, just for the sake of information.
[Fanboy mode on] Have Xbox gamers become so desperate about the lack of exclusives on their platform to steal some Sony goodness? [Fanboy mode off]
It's not coming to Xbox. It's a Playstation 4 exclusive. Did no one see this at E3 2019? Play it first on PS4 means that it's also going to be playable on the next Playstation, not on Xbox one or the Scarlett.
i just want to point out that that picture DOESN'T have the blue tick on it NOR does it have it's Twitter Handle next to the name like the official account does (and i checked and if you want to you can too https://twitter.com/XboxDACH?s=17 ) SO i think that it's possible this is a hoax
i also want to point out something i posted in the Final Fantasy Thread from the OFFICIAL Square Enix Support Page where they CONFIRM it's a PS4 exclusive
Link: https://support.eu.square-enix.com/faqarticle.php?kid=78560&ret=main&id=18725&la=2&pv=20
https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/ps_general_discussion/final_fantasy_easter_egg_and_tips_thread8?start=1780#reply-1795
@MightyDemon82 The original still holds it to this day it really does if it's your first time playing it I envy you because this game really has me hooked and I was at school when it came out and oh man the lessons I fell a sleep in because of the late nights
I heard It'll be on Nintendo in March 2038.
@Nakatomi_Uk. I missed out due to being an N64 XBOX owner, never really played RPG's in my youth but now I can't get enough of them. Blue Dragon on xbox360 was probably my very first JRPG!
Tut tut, using a swear word in the title. Lifetime ban.
Whatever.🙅♂️🤷♂️
It should be news for xbox gamers I guess
What I don’t get is the fact that it says 3 März, which is the 3rd March, so I don’t see how it would be played first on PS4 as it eludes to a simultaneous launch. So I’m 99% sure that this leak is fake and, as pointed out by another commenter, it isn’t verified so I don’t think it’s real at all.
I doubt they’ll be many Xbox owners who are bothered by this, JRPGs are probably the least popular genre on the system and Final Fantasy has always been released on PlayStation for decades so it’s no surprise it’s releasing on PS4 and not on XB1, it actually makes sense really.
@NintendoFan4Lyf
Think it will come to both as Microsoft may continue to support Xbox one and One X especially for a time.
@MightyDemon82
One of my fave games of all time. Can’t wait for the remake. 6 7 and 8 all had slightly darker more adult stories then they went back to squeaky childish crap for pretty much all that’s followed... 6 and 7 were the best for me. 8 wasn’t to bad... the draw system was utter dog muck though and super annoying imo.
I constantly see people chastised for language in the comments but we can have cock in a headline?
@Robinsad It's an article not community forums. Two different things.
@JoeBlogs who wins? Is the people who only have a PS4. Plus, you don’t have to wait for the game. PlayStation and FF are synonymous with each other. So this being on the PS4 is no surprise. If FFVII didn’t make it to the Xbox it wouldn’t be missed. FFVII can move PS4’s. Where if it does go to the Xbox they will be lucky to hit 6 figure sales. Japanese games don’t sell well on the Xbox period.
Plus, these type of games always sell poorly in the Xbox. The last exclusive rpg Xbox had was during the 360, tales of Vesperia. That sold poorly on the 360. That is part of the reason it got re released. The last Xbox exclusive was Tomb Raider. Again sold poorly. The only reason Xbox got that game was because they paid for the marketing. I mean the Tomb Raider before it sold millions on the PS3/PS4 and barely broke a 1 mil on 360/X1.
@MaccaMUFC yep 100%. Jrpg are a big thing for PlayStation. Xbox is more shooters like Halo and GoW with the occasional Ori or Cuphead. Plus, Xbox is looked down upon in Japan. MS tried to get the Xbox brand to sell better over there but Nintendo and PlayStation just destroy it. I could easily see this being s PS4 exclusive.
@snakemake how is it false marketing? Lol. I mean if you own a PS4 when it comes out you can play. If somehow it comes to the Xbox a year or so down the line doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t say anything about Xbox later or anything. Timed exclusives are fine. It gets that console some extra sales. Remember Sony and MS are in the business to make money. So if Sony or MS can strike a deal that gets them a game first for a period time they will do it. Don’t forget MS spent like 100 mil to get GTAIV timed exclusive dlc.
@kyleforrester87 no one has said it’s episodic. That is what sites like this have said. At E3 they never mentioned it being episodic. They said that the first game is a full game up to Midgar. Episodic is usually a game that has 4-5 episodes that have 2-3 hours of game content.
Stealth headline change
@Face76
Definition of episodic: "containing or consisting of a series of separate parts or events."
Translation of official press release: "will be split into parts"
@Face76 yeah you’re splitting hairs. It’s absolutely episodic.
Ha, headline changed as I am sure the original word is a flag for when we use it 😂
@kyleforrester87 yeah that is really splitting hairs. FF7 is in episodes just like FF13 is. I don't understand why the confusion 😅
They've not announced it for Xbox to get all those preorders. It has loads already as you need to order it to be able to rate it on the PS4 store.
If it were exclusive, we would not hear the end of it.
Edit: If a jRPG comes out on both systems and you own both, I see no reason to get it on the PS4 due to the recent policy changes.
@ZeD is it splitting hairs or making hairs episodic?
@kyleforrester87 now you are asking the real questions 🤔
For some reason I thought Sony helped fund this so thought it was an actual exclusive, not timed... obviously not!
They did Dodoo that's why it's a full Sony exclusive it's not coming to any other system square even pointed that out after this lie by Xbox
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