See, yesterday there was this trailer. A leaked trailer. And not just any leaked trailer… it was a leaked trailer for Final Fantasy XV.
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"What??" you may say, knocking over your Cloud Strife action figure in excitement, "There's a new numbered Final Fantasy game coming out??"
Well, no. The footage in the video was from Final Fantasy Versus XIII, which led many to the conclusion that that long-awaited (possibly vaporous) game had been "upgraded" to Final Fantasy XV.
And yet... still, no. Kotaku reached out to ask Square Enix about the whole thing, and a representative told us flat-out, "We can confirm that the trailer is fake."
So: Not real. False. Fake as a spray-on tan. No Final Fantasy XV for us. At least for now.
DISCUSSION
So... they confirmed the trailer is fake? Ok, that doesn't confirm the actual game is fake though - why not say the whole video is a fake rather than just one aspect of the video. In fairness, there are a lot of things here that could actually point to it being true, while the video in general is not.
If it's been this long in development, why not rename it? Unless it follows the same characters as in ordinary XIII (I'm not really a follower of FF games). Looking at their previous track record, don't they release about three main games per console generation?
It's for PS3 and Wii U. Two things could make sense here, the original XIII didn't actually ship for the 360 in Japan and the Wii simply wasn't up to the task - now Wii U is it could join the PS3 version for a Japanese launch. Another is to do with the 360's use of DVDs which hold far less than blu-ray and Wii U's equivalent.
So maybe there will be a reveal come E3? Still very unlikely, but I find the wording SE gave here referring only to the trailer as a bit odd.