Last month at E3, we saw some proper gameplay of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake at the Square Enix conference. While I have previously thought of Final Fantasy as something to ignore, I’ve recently been diving into XV. I also saw the Final Fantasy 7 Remake gameplay and thought it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. I’ll stop beating around the bush: It may be the first of the classic JRPGs that I want to jump head first into without receiving a concussion.

About a month prior, we also got a bit of a leak from Gamestop Ireland. This time it wasn’t for the announced PS4 edition it was the for Xbox One edition. If you spent two minutes listening to what was being said at E3 about the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, you will have noticed the absence of the Xbox One announcement. In short, there was none.

However, yesterday afternoon there was a video uploaded to the Xbox Germany Facebook page; which has since been deleted. The video was of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trailer we saw last month at E3 during the Square Enix conference, but with an Xbox banner atop it. In German, it read that the Final Fantasy 7 Remake was coming to the Xbox One March 3rd, 2020. The same day as the PlayStation 4 release.

While it has been speculated that the PS4 release is to be a timed exclusive, this would put a spanner in those works. There has been no official comment on the story by Square Enix, and some expect this to pass as nothing. The marketing communications and social media manager for Xbox Germany, Maxi Gräff, took to twitter with this following statement:

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.

— Maxi Gräff 🤜🤛 (@GMaxee) July 10, 2019

The question from there has to be, why was the video edited to show an Xbox header above the Final Fantasy 7 Remake? This may not be an announcement, yet; but there has to be some reason for this. Some are speculating that this is Xbox Germany jumping the gun a little bit, which makes sense. If this is the case, then one would have to assume the impending announcement is to arrive in the next couple of days.

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