Square Enix Cancelling Digital Pre-Orders of Hitman on PS4

<p><em>Hitman <&sol;em>is scheduled to be released digitally first on March 11th&comma; 2016&comma; with regular updates coming to it after its launch&period; However&comma; it looks like some users have been seeing their pre-orders cancelled by Square Enix&&num;8211&semi;on the PS4&comma; at least&period; The reason hasn&&num;8217&semi;t been revealed yet&comma; but this tweet by David Scammell&comma; news editor for VideoGamer&period;com&comma; shows the message some users have been receiving&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Square Enix is cancelling all digital PS4 pre-orders of Hitman <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;SqwYDW5Xcm">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;SqwYDW5Xcm<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Dave Scammell &lpar;&commat;VG&lowbar;Dave&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;VG&lowbar;Dave&sol;status&sol;687365900736049153&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">January 13&comma; 2016<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The cancellation of pre-orders is not new&comma; but usually only happens when release dates are being changed because the product no longer reflects what exactly was purchased&period; Other users on the <em>Hitman<&sol;em> forum have reported similar cancellations for their digital pre-orders&period; So far&comma; the only cancellations that have been reported are on PS4 and seem to be isolated to European consumers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A post on the <em>Hitman<&sol;em> forum from the community manager of <em>Hitman<&sol;em> states &&num;8220&semi;<em>If your pre-order is cancelled&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t panic&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re adjusting a few things &amp&semi; will update in a few days&period; The release date is still set for March 11th&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> What exactly is being changed&quest; There was a beta set to be released on February 12th&comma; 2016 that was guaranteed for people who pre-order&comma; so perhaps that date is changing&period; The February 12th beta release was set to be a week before the PC beta comes out on February 19th&comma; 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Sources&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;VG&lowbar;Dave&sol;status&sol;687365900736049153">Twitter<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;hitmanforum&period;com&sol;t&sol;hitman-ps4-preorders-cancelled&sol;3701">Hitman Forum<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;