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Best Buy: Final Fantasy VII remake coming 8/16/08.

Cruxis Mana | August 04, 2008 | News | Playstation 3

In what can only be described as a huge blunder on their part, Best Buy are advertising the release of a Final Fantasy VII Remake for PS3, coming out on the 16th of August 2008.

- Should be interesting to see what becomes of this.

We've seen this sign popping up over the weekend on the internets, and now reader and Best Buy employee Boomy (possibly a pseudonym) sends this snap from his iPhone of a coming soon sign misprint that is set to disappoint a lot of people come August 16th. At least we assume that this is a misprint. Either that, or Square Enix has developed Apple-levels of secrecy over the past few years...somehow I doubt it.

It's just odd that such a screw-up would occur with nothing even vaguely FF-related coming out this month. Disgaea 3 ships on the 18th, and while for some of us that is more exciting than a FFVII remake, I can't see some hapless sign-monkey mixing the two of them up. Odd.

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Zero and X | August 04, 2008

Hmm, this outta turn out to be quite intresting.
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Cruxis Mana | August 04, 2008

The sad thing is, people will probably believe it.

>.<
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Newcloud | August 04, 2008

this is wrong... but only if it were true :'(
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kik36 | August 04, 2008

Do games even get released on Saturdays anyway? Interesting misprint.
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MusiKon | August 04, 2008

You know what? I say they should leave that up. I wanna see how many Square fans make themselves look stupid. This is gonna be hilarious.
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Red 9 | August 04, 2008

It's gonna be pathetic how many people will really believe this.
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phowell23 | August 04, 2008

best buy has done this before with ff7. A while back they had it listed as coming out december 1st 2006. they probly pick a date outta a hat every couple years and say its coming out to mess with the fanboys
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Donnelly | August 04, 2008

Look down the very bottom of the image.

"Release dates subject to change."
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  Cruxis Mana | August 04, 2008
  
  Don't jinx it. ='[
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gonzab | August 04, 2008

Hmm, well it doesn't says remake anywhere, so they probably gonna sell the original game? Again? xD
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  Deathsythe | August 04, 2008
  
  To my knowledge, Best Buy stopped carrying PSX games, so I don't think so.
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    SUPREM_KITE | August 04, 2008
    
    Best Buy actually never carried psx games they handled ps1 but psx is something completely different it is actually a system that was only released in japan that played ps1 and ps2 games and acted as a DVR and cost a whopping $2000(usd after conversion from yen) and was an utter failure.
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StabWound | August 04, 2008

I seen a picture of this yesterday, I just figured it was photo shopped, but this one is different...
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Zeon I | August 04, 2008

This is a lie. Some employee is just Rick Rolling diehard VII fans.
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  Tiger of Wu | August 04, 2008
  
  lol, I can imagine someone buying it and putting it in their PS3 and upon selecting the game seeing a HD Rick Astley never giving them up
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tidus04 | August 04, 2008

It would be nice to be true but you just know it i'snt ='[
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tallteen86 | August 05, 2008

Disgaea 3 ships on the 18th? Does that mean it'll come out a bit before the 26th? I realize the 18th is just the day it is supposedly shipping, but it seems a bit early for a game that will come out over a week later than that.....
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Final Blade | August 05, 2008

_{LAWL, this reminds of last year when it was reported by 1up(I think) that FF7 remake is coming soon in February 2008, only to be shot down.

Im positive this is false and misread something, as usual, from some article; cause Nomura stated they didn't have the man power or the original team atm to make the game.

But hey I would love to see what happens in 11 days.}
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KneeNAR | August 05, 2008

BUwhahahahah!!! Good laugh. Made my day. XD