Xbox Social Post Featuring Final Fantasy 7 Remake Was An 'Error'

.....yet. Come on, with Phil being at the FF14 event and the Squenix CEO promising better support for Xbox, it's surely gonna be present at TGS. And it is odd that the international Xbox accounts keep misinforming/leaking games that have yet to hit up Xbox and/or GP.

If all xbox is getting is an old final fantasy online game no thanks lol

@UnusedBabyWipes I can imagine Sony have made sure its never coming to Xbox.

I'm happy we are getting Final Fantasy 14 😃

How exactly does that happen? I mean nobody accidentally puts Mario in Playstation ad.

Yeah, we can guess maybe with the new S-E partnership it'll happen sooner or later, but it's still just inexplicable here.

Where there is smoke there’s fire ….. I am hoping that is was a honest mistake that in 2024 becomes an announcement…

@NEStalgia you'd think they'd do the research in regards to what characters they're including in marketing.

Buuuut... at the same time, it's not like Barret is anywhere near on par with Mario in terms of mainstream recognition. Some marketing suit Googling "Final Fantasy characters" or "Final Fantasy dads" wouldn't necessarily know much about games in general, let alone which Final Fantasy character appeared in which game. Marketing types sometimes know surprisingly little about what they're actually marketing.

That's a very specific error, like EA 'accidently' adding Mirror's Edge to a list of 3 Battlefield games getting delisted.

@NEStalgia This isn't the first time an Xbox social account showed FFVII Remake by mistake. For example:

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/07/xbox_germany_mucks_up_by_announcing_final_fantasy_vii_remake_for_xbox_one

If FFVII Remake comes to Xbox then it means Phil Spencer lied to the CMA and in court about Xbox exclusion deals so I wouldn't take the image as definitive confirmation that it's coming in the future.

@Grumblevolcano Until whatever deal SE and MS recently worked out with the XIV announcement and all does seem new, and maybe more importantly related to the new CEO, so I don't really think whatever happened before applies now. 7R specifically, I think we've known for ages Sony doesn't have a normal, contractual, hold on it, otherwise they themselves would have boasted about it being exclusive. Since they didn't do that we could be pretty sure it wasn't a formal exclusivity contract, but I think lots of us have speculated for years there was sort of a handshake/soft-money hold on it. Enhanced share, marketing perks, something off the books, at least with the old CEO.

I still wouldn't put money on the table as to if 7R comes to Xb this gen though. I'm solidly on 50/50 for that.

@Markatron84 Sad but true.

LOL "Final Fantasy dads" I somehow depressingly believe that.

@NEStalgia I just hope they had safe search on.

@Markatron84 LOL!