IGN Interview w/ Tetsuya Nomura

Meilin Lee · Jun 13, 2018

In an interview with IGN, Kingdom Hearts series director, Tetsuya Nomura, discusses the reasons for KH3's small delay, as well as why we haven't seen anything from the confirmed Big Hero 6 world yet. In regards to the delay, Nomura states:

"The timing of release that we were actually looking at, we were told by many people, including hardware manufacturers, marketing teams, sales teams that it just wasn't a good timing in the year," Nomura said via translation, explaining that the differences in holiday lengths and how stores behave in different regions were a note of concern."

"...For Kingdom Hearts 3, the Square-Enix western offices had requested to release the game as simultaneously as much as possible between Japan and America, so we were no longer able to just think about Japanese issues and retail situations."

"We of course considered maybe speeding up development to release earlier than when we were told wasn't good, but the development team said that 'No, we just couldn't do that. We could delay it, but we couldn't make it any sooner.'"

Fortuitously, the team now has some extra time to continue refining the game as the release approaches, though, Nomura explained.
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As for why we still haven't seen footage of the Big Hero 6 world, the answer is pretty simple:

"...We pretty much have finished creating all the gameplay within that world, but we're just not finished with the cutscenes yet," Nomura said.
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Source: IGN

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