Best Buy’s sign blunder stirs up interesting blog chatter, store denies typo

What in the world is wrong with Best Buy getting all the Final Fantasy fanatics like myself stirred up? When I heard that Best Buy was releasing a Final Fantasy VII remake for the Playstation 3, I was ready to hop into my car – fluffy blue bunny slippers, powder-blue bunny pajamas and all – to speed down there to make reservations.

You would think Final Fantasy fans worldwide would know when the best game in the series is going to be released. We watch Square-Enix site for any tidbit of news the company has. No joke, check out this video someone took of an actual sign at Best Buy:

It would be so sweet if that were true, even the end movie for Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core after you cleared all the side quest missions hinted at a possible remake of the original game. Alas, after all that digging I found that it was obviously a typo on Best Buy’s part and another wishful thought to file away with the other wishful thoughts of Final Fantasy 7 remake rumors. So I decided to call my local Best Buy to see if there is a glimmer of truth to this. Of course no one knew what I was talking about so I searched Best Buy’s website to find that the page does not exist and decided to call the international number to place an order.

Even the lady that answered the phone searched her data base for the game after I asked to put it on reservation could not find the game. When I suggested that maybe that poster was actually a typo, she was quick to respond, “Best Buy doesn’t make typos, perhaps you should return to the store where you saw the poster and make your reservations there…” followed by the phone hanging up.

So I did some more digging on the internet and found more chatter about the poster and found an interesting piece by Matt Peckham on the PCworld blogs. Peckham suggests it would be more like a direct sequel to Final Fantasy 7 rather than a remake, “Note, importantly, that I said ‘sequel’ and not “remake,” something radically different from the annual rumormongering about this most famously venerated installment in Square Enix’s inexhaustible role-playing series getting more than a little nip and tuck,” Peckham wrote on PCWorld’s blog.

Luke Smith of 1Up.com isn’t buying the rumor either and wrote, “It’s hard to figure out what’s worse: Pre-ordering Final Fantasy VII for the PS3 from Best Buy or that Best Buy’s ship date for the unannounced, untalked about, but-still-totally-likely project is December 1 of this year.”

And I totally agree with Cruxis Mana at GameGrep that this has to be Best Buy’s biggest blunder when he wrote, “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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