To start, I will preface this for anyone who does not know what this is:
Back at PAX Prime, Square Enix confirmed that FFXV was going to be released in 2016, but said they could not reveal a specific date. Instead, they announced that they would be holding an even sometime in March of next year to announce the official release date.
Now that we are all on the same page:
Does this strike anyone else as being odd? I know FFXV is easily one of the most anticipated titles Square has released in a long time, but is it really worthy of having a special event just to announce its release date? I mean the same could easily be accomplished by releasing a trailer, making a press release, or even including it into an ATR (Active Time Report).
To me, there are two things that this event could mean:
1) FFXV will release sometime before E3 - This is probably the more likely of my two opinions. it would make sense for them to announce a release date at E3 since it is the largest gaming event of the year, and Square has not shied away from making some of their bigger reveals at it (KH3, FFXV). Square would have to be releasing the game before E3 if they think holding a separate event is warranted.
2) FFXV will release a short period after this event - This theory is in line with the first one, but on a much closer time frame. A game as big as FFXV could warrant an event like this one if the news dropped at it is equally as large. I am not predicting any sort of "The game releases tonight" or anything that extreme, but I think it is a possibility that they could announce the game to release very shortly after the event (a month or two). Square has been marketing this game well, and dropping news like that would easily make it one of the biggest and strongest marketing tactics of the year. (I say all of this as just a theory, as I don't personally believe the game would be ready by then).
Now these are just two theories I have devised, and they honestly could mean nothing (I still have a strong feeling of a Fall release myself). I just found it odd that Square would make such a large deal about a release date announcement. Let me know if you think it means something else, if you think either of these are possible, or if you think the event means nothing special.
To start, I will preface this for anyone who does not know what this is:
Back at PAX Prime, Square Enix confirmed that FFXV was going to be released in 2016, but said they could not reveal a specific date. Instead, they announced that they would be holding an even sometime in March of next year to announce the official release date.
Now that we are all on the same page:
Does this strike anyone else as being odd? I know FFXV is easily one of the most anticipated titles Square has released in a long time, but is it really worthy of having a special event just to announce its release date? I mean the same could easily be accomplished by releasing a trailer, making a press release, or even including it into an ATR (Active Time Report).
To me, there are two things that this event could mean:
1) FFXV will release sometime before E3 - This is probably the more likely of my two opinions. it would make sense for them to announce a release date at E3 since it is the largest gaming event of the year, and Square has not shied away from making some of their bigger reveals at it (KH3, FFXV). Square would have to be releasing the game before E3 if they think holding a separate event is warranted.
2) FFXV will release a short period after this event - This theory is in line with the first one, but on a much closer time frame. A game as big as FFXV could warrant an event like this one if the news dropped at it is equally as large. I am not predicting any sort of "The game releases tonight" or anything that extreme, but I think it is a possibility that they could announce the game to release very shortly after the event (a month or two). Square has been marketing this game well, and dropping news like that would easily make it one of the biggest and strongest marketing tactics of the year. (I say all of this as just a theory, as I don't personally believe the game would be ready by then).
Now these are just two theories I have devised, and they honestly could mean nothing (I still have a strong feeling of a Fall release myself). I just found it odd that Square would make such a large deal about a release date announcement. Let me know if you think it means something else, if you think either of these are possible, or if you think the event means nothing special.