Xbox Germany Marketing and Social Lead Comments on the Post.
Yesterday Xbox One owners were excited due to a fast deleted marketing post, that showed the Final Fantasy VII Remake was coming there way. A simultaneous launch with the PlayStation 4, no less. Leaks are relatively common in the industry so many had already decided, before the official word, that this was all but confirmed.
However, Maxi Gräff, the marketing communications & social lead at Xbox Germany has since explained on her Twitter account (via Gamespot) that it was an “internal mistake in the Social Team,” and has apologised for hurting anybody’s feelings. Gräff went on to briefly explain how the mistake happened and assured people that it wouldn’t happen again.
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
I am truly sorry if I hurt anybodies feelings. But be sure that this was not intended and just an honest mistake from a gaming loving human. Again: we will check our process on this to make sure this doesn´t happen again.
— Maxi Gräff ?? (@GMaxee) July 10, 2019
It actually happened yes. In that video were multiple FF games and the remake happened to be in there by mistake from the editorial team where we didn´t check the exclusitivity on the specific one. We make sure this doesn´t happen again.
— Maxi Gräff ?? (@GMaxee) July 10, 2019
These statements all seem quite frank. Your opinion on their validity may vary, but it looks like simple human error.
While your hopes for an Xbox One port may be dashed, there’s always hope for the future. FFVII Remake is an episodic release, and as 2020 appears to be both consoles final year, it would be expected for all future episodes to be released on next-generation hardware.
Whether these episodes will remain a PlayStation exclusive is yet to be confirmed, but as recent and successful Square Enix “exclusives” have eventually made the port over, (Tomb Raider, NieR: Automata) Final Fantasy VII Remake on PC and Microsoft’s next box is well within the realm of possibilities.
Watch this space.
