One of the most dangerous things about the internet is that plenty of posts on places like social media seem “legitimate” for one reason or another, and yet they’re later proven not to be. An excellent example is when someone posts pictures from a “store page” for a certain title that appears to have a release date or reveals a new system the game will be on. Yesterday, a rumor popped up from a Brazilian store that said Final Fantasy VII Remake was coming to Xbox. As you can probably guess, Xbox gamers were excited about this. But soon enough, the truth was revealed.
As reported by Eurogamer, Microsoft heard about this report and then made a statement debunking the claim:
“The image was posted in error and removed as it included a title not available on Xbox.”
Now, while that is a definitive statement and comes from an Xbox rep, some leeway can be found there. For example, the statement said that it is “not available on Xbox,” not that it “won’t be available on Xbox in the future.” We bring this up because last month, at a special event by Square Enix, the publisher revealed that they were bringing their hit MMO to Xbox for the first time. They also indicated that they were up for bringing more of their titles to Xbox.
So if you’re doing that, why not bring Final Fantasy VII Remake to the system? There’s little doubt the Xbox Series X/S could handle it, and the Xbox One would definitely have some of its users buy it. Undoubtedly, this is a big candidate for the next “porting” by Square Enix.
The game itself was a standpoint when it finally arrived. We say “finally” because it was one of “those games” that “took its sweet time” to get to consoles. There were many years of silence from Square Enix about the game, and when it came out, many hoped it would be as good as promised.
Thankfully, it was almost everything fans of the characters and original PS1 title wanted, modern graphics, voice acting, an updated battle system that still respected the original and an expansion of the story beyond what we had before.
While not everything worked, like with the “Time Wraiths subplot,” most people loved it and considered it one of the best games of that year. So if it were to arrive on Xbox One or X/S, it would make many gamers happy.
