Either someone at Best Buy is getting fired or Square Enix has kept this announcement so far under wraps that not even their own company knew about it. Over this past weekend, photos have been circulating on the internet that have displayed the release of Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation 3 come August 16 of 2008.
While many believed that the original photo had been photoshopped and kids were now just toying with the diehard fans who are longing for the title, a new photo taken by a Best Buy employee seems to say differently.

We doubt any truth to this botch-up, but obviously, like many of you, we have hope for it to be somewhat accurate. However, with the advertised date being a Saturday, it does seem rather doubtful.
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typo? maybe... i dunno, who messes up that bad?
we'll just have to wait n see ... wont we
Thats a very good photo shop if that is fake.
psn id: I95SOUTH
Yes!!!! Hannah montana comes out on the 12 woo- hoo. j/k
i dont believe it. the font on final fantasy is way smaller then others. id like to see a video and not a little picture if the release date is somewhere so public as a best buy
Could be a typo..but what other Final Fantasies are coming out in America atm ?? Also what happens if you try to go in and preorder it?
"Release dates subject to change." lol it's about a decade late isn't it?
yeah and i bet SHlTTY square will port it over to the 360 if this were true. DAMN i hate that company.
hum?
Interesting, thought it's very doubtful
psn id: gingo... it would be incredible if this was true but i think it will be debunked by SE very soon
Way back when the PS3 freaking LAUNCHED the FF7 SKU appeared in our system. It has probably gone unchanged all this time and automatically printed when the time came.
I still think it's photoshop'd. I could have done it and i'm not even a photoshop expert.
Hmm, anyways what the heck was the BIIIIG STUNNING announcement made by Sqaure Enix?! Nothing stunned me!!
editors can u tell us which of the SQUARE ENIX anouncements was the stunning one? plz
it could be real. look at the reflection of the guy taking the pic. i also saw this at my best buy. could tis be SE shoking anouncement?!?!?!?!?!?!?
O man if this is true i would be 1 happy guy lol
If you look closely, the lettering of FF7 is different then the Madden and Hannah Montana. It's obvious that it's photoshopped.
Just another bad joke
That would be shoking but I doubt it.
Might be Final Fantasy VII the old one just for PS3:) on a blu-ray
@Pap#rThin
Its actually the same font. the guy just took the pic at an angle, making the wording a little slant
Too bad this is probably false seeing that games are released on Tuesdays. This would be a great comeback seeing that the other game has gone multi platform. Might be true but I'm not gonna hold ny breath.
Far guess, but it could be psn version of ff7 sold in the store.
whatever they call those psx games.. classic games?
Anyway most likely just terrible mistake at best buy, ;D
If some of you guys would read the comments on the other articles you would know that Mike said that the big annoucment was the FF 13 demo comming with the Blu ray Advent Children was the big news.
these guys feel sorry for sony fans. let s wait n see what they are trying to do.
OMG Hannah Montana is soooo hot XD
its probably the re release of the original. we were stated to recieve it soon werent we thru live arcade and psn?
Any truth to this?
Someone;s idea of a joke more than likely.
hmmmm
I've stopped dreaming about a ff7 remake months ago, I really don't see why i should change my mind since SE has let us down with the ff13 news!
if this is true i will do the gayest dance of all time that is if i knew one lol
I hope it's true, but unfortunately it's a fake. it seems.
I am a Best Buy employee and the sign was brought to my attention at my location by a customer who recieved word of this. He also saw the sign in my store which, during a busy day, is easy to miss.
The sign is real and it is not just one Best Buy.
The real question is whether or not this is a typo or if Best Buy Corporate knows something that we don't know.
Either someone is getting fired or this was Square Enix's big suprise.
ZOMG! Hannah Montana Game wooot *has an orgasm* XD
Maybe they are thinking of the bluray advent children, but I also doubt it comes out that date.
maybe 8/16/09
This cannot be true. If by some miracle it were, then Square Enix did a very well job at keeping it secret. Think about this tho guys. 1) Back in '05, they made a completely revamped CGI video of the whole intro sequence to FF VII. It is now 2008, which has given them a good 3 1/2 years of development time. 2) The director of the orginal FF VII made a statement that truly aroused my suspicion even further. AND I QUOTE: ”Of course, that said we came up with the idea for Crisis Core in just two days. It was a case of 'this is what we want to do, so let's do it'. So, you can definitely expect the probability of something spontaneous happening at some point, but it's hard to predict." <----
ALOS, there have been so many HINTS about the games. Think about the movie FF VII AC. The EXACT same scene with Sephiroth standing in the fire and smiling and then walking away was in that movie. THE EXACT SAME SCENE that was in the original FF VII GAME.
The list goes on and on, but I dont have time to type it all right now guys.