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Final Fantasy VII Remake Pre-Load Moved Up, Will Download Earlier Now

Final Fantasy VII Remake digital pre-load has moved up a whole week. This will make it possible for everyone to download the game ahead of launch.

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olorin8181487d ago

It makes it particulary difficult knowing it's there on your harddrive, but you can't play it yet !

Juancho511487d ago

We've all been asking for early digital release. Love it. Hoping they allow play early too instead of letting it sit on the drive til the 10th. We're still quarantined, would be nice to play it before work.

meka26111487d ago

Yea kind of weird that people can buy and play physical copies early and square enix doesn't care but they won't release the digital version early, really sucks.

kyzer19781487d ago

It's because they don't want to undercut retail sales. If digital drops early it will slow their sales because more people will buy digital instead. The publisher has an agreement with retail to not do that.

PeaSFor1487d ago (Edited 1487d ago )

" will slow their sales because more people will buy digital instead"

uhhhh? physical of digital, its the same game so no, it wouldnt "slow their sales" at all.

the only valid point would be that it could irk peoples who choosed the physical versionover digital.

Army_of_Darkness1486d ago

@pea

I think he is referring to the sales effecting it's retail counterpart. Retailers will lose their profit if everyone starts buying digital because its releasing earlier than the physical version. Square wins either way.

dumahim1486d ago

We don't know that they won't move it up early as a surprise.
I'm guessing they'll at least wait until they ship the SE store copies which they said would start this week. Haven't received my confirmation yet, but I've seen others claim their copy has shipped.

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Jackhass1487d ago

Hopefully they just go ahead and drop the game early.

NotoriousWhiz1487d ago

As soon as it's officially released, I'm buying. Please release it early.

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Vithar1487d ago

gonna a big ass download, better start early lol

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Original Final Fantasy 7 - Is it Worth Playing in 2024?

Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?

ravens5217d ago

Got to Zacks part in 7 Rebirth. Said f it. Finishing my game in 7 og. Just got to part 2 yesterday. I also got Crisis Core... So it'll be a while before I'm back to Rebirth. I just keep thinking about it too smh, want to get back to playing it. Not till I know Zacks story though. I beat 7 og sooooooo long ago, it's crazy going through it again and remembering things.

MrNinosan17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

Got to Zacks part in Rebirth?
You mean you started the game and turned it off?
The game starts with Zack...

ravens5217d ago

... Really 🤓 lol. His second part, I've played for 80hrs lmao. <---- PS5 Run time, probably not all game time. You guys know how it goes.

VIK212117d ago (Edited 17d ago )

Did you not ever play the OG FF7? After you recruit Vincent, later in the game, disc 3, return to that basement and look at the pod, there's a whole Zack story that'll trigger as a memory.... it's well hidden in the game and a lot of things regarding Zack are cleared up. FF7 Crisis Core is basically an extend feature of that hidden flashback... It took me years to discover it back then lol

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MrNinosan17d ago

@ravens52
80 hours in Rebirth by doing everything, and you should've reached Zacks story about 5 times 🤣

ravens5216d ago

Ye I kno that's y I said not all gameplay time. But also I am very anal when it comes to exploring.

ravens5216d ago

Not to mention fighting Titan at his full strength. Hours spent trying still haven't succeeded. Found all 3 ruins but I'ma masochist when it comes to games.

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Barlos17d ago

Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.

Barlos17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

It always takes me back to Christmas 1997, I got it as a gift and I was blown away when I played it. I couldn't believe games could look that good. The combination of pre rendered backgrounds and FMV really made it stand out. It definitely still has a certain charm that modern games can't replicate.

I can't imagine people will still be talking about Remake and Rebirth in 27 years.

Tapani17d ago

Fully agreed. To me the atmosphere, pacing, gameplay and music are all better than in the remake.

Rebel_Scum17d ago

Yes, play this, skip remake, start rebirth for new players.

I_am_Batman17d ago

Skip Remake? That's terrible advice.

leahcim17d ago

Remake is so amazing, pure FFVII Love, play it on PS5 please! aww the graphics the battles, the music... a dream come true.

Rebel_Scum17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

I disagree Batman

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Famitsu Weekly Sales [3/25-3/31] - Princess Peach, Dragon’s Dogma 2 + Winning Post 10 2024 in top 10

Sales ranking announced by Famitsu. This time, we bring you a summary of estimated weekly game software and hardware sales from March 25th to March 31st, 2024.

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ZeekQuattro22d ago

Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

Switch OLED Model – 42,957 (6,958,780)
PlayStation 5 – 18,272 (4,713,002)
Switch Lite – 8,302 (5,793,705)
Switch – 6,274 (19,755,912)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,574 (746,561)
Xbox Series X – 938 (252,674)
PlayStation 4 – 679 (7,925,339)
Xbox Series S – 438 (306,446)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) -6 (1,192,906)

VersusDMC21d ago

Rise of the ronin sold twice as much as Dragons Dogma 2 this week...but no articles about that. It's only news if a PS exclusive is being outsold.