Kingdom Hearts III Kingdom Hearts 3, Forever Tainted by the Xbone?

Discussion in 'General & Upcoming Kingdom Hearts' started by A Zebra, Jun 11, 2013.

  1. A Zebra Chaser

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    I dunno
    As soon as I found out it was coming our for the xbone, my hype level actually dropped significantly.
    I have such a negative association with that console. After finding out Doritos and Mountain Dew were doing a promotion for the Xbone, I felt less inclined to eat either of those things
    It's the same basic deal here.
    But there's more.
    Why, of all the games for KH to go multiplatform, Kingdom Hearts THREE? Multiplatform hurts games, and Kingdom Hearts 3 has a LOT to live up to.
    And why pick the third game to debut on a microsoft console? Sure, it was kinda silly to put the third mass effect on the Wii U, but at least Mass Effect is just three games, spanning four years, not SEVEN games spanning over a DECADE. And KH's plot is FAR more complex than Mass Effect's, so a simple recap isn't going to cut it.
    It just feels so wrong
    and the xbone is so terrible
    It has actually retroactively undone a lot of my hype, and that makes me sad
    Am I the only one who feels this?
     
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    You should be. It's not going to hurt the quality of KH3 so why care? I'm positive that KH3 is only being ported to the Xbox One. Just like FFXV is. Meaning the PS4 is the console that's being focused on. Who cares if other people decide not to follow up on the story before playing KH3? It's their loss.
     
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    It WILL hurt it though. Becuase now they have t devote time to porting it, AND the game will be restricted to the inferior specs of the xbone
    Were getting a worse version of KH3 so i can appear on the xbone
    I'm sure it'll still be a great game
    But it'll be worse than it should be
     
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    That's not how a port works. If the PS4 is the primary console, the only inferior version that will exist is the Xbox One's version. This is how it's been done whenever a PC game is ported to a console. The PC version never suffers because of a console's inferior specs. You're worried over nothing. Besides, knowing Nomura, KH3 might skip next generation too. XD
     
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    I don't know much about the specs for the Xbox One other than an overview, but if the Xbox One doesn't get many sales and KH3 doesn't get many sales then that would be a loss of profit. If I remember correctly Square got majority of their sales for FF13 and 13-2 from PS3 even with the 360 version and it did well enough. It doesn't really affect my actual hype for the game as I'll be getting the PS4 version and it should be same for both versions (or the PS4 version will be better) but I do see your point.
     
  6. A Zebra Chaser

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    Um... no
    It takes time and manpower to port a game to a console, and the more powerful console has to be nerfed. That's what happened with Final Fantasy XIII
    Here's the thing, I'm NOT theorizing here, this is the result of multiconsole. A game that is made for a single console is better because it can be optimized, and it will get the full attention of the team
    The game WILL be worse than it should be because of this decision. That much is a fact
     
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    You are theorizing because that's not always the case. Have you seen Skyrim? It wasn't built with the PS3 in mind. 360 version runs fine. PS3 version? That was a port. And it was plagued by gamebreaking glitches that were nonexistent in the 360 version.

    If work starts on the PS4, it'll be better optimized for that system. Besides, we're not dealing with two entirely different beasts this time around. PS4 does not have cell. It's built like a PC. The Xbox One? It's also built like a PC. It just has a lot more nonessential stuff to slow it down. Porting this time around won't be an issue. If anything, all that would happen is that maybe the Xbox One would have a slightly scaled down version of KH3's engine and I don't even see that happening. The PS4 doesn't completely outclass One's power.

    I don't know how KH3 is being developed but in the case of XV, it won't be held back because of Xbox One. They'll focus first on the PS4 version then get it running on the Xbox One. A port=/=working on the two versions at once. They're completely different things.
     
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    I'll open your mind to a word shattering idea: just because the game as a whole will be worse, doesn't mean one can't be worse than the other
    Obviously the system it's made for will be the superior version, but it still takes time and manpower that could be devoted to making the game better.
    The reason I chose Final Fantasy XIII as an example was because it's the perfect example of this. It started off PS3 exclusive, but became multiplatform, and after that you cna watch in amazement was features dropped and the graphics worsened. It's still better on the PS3, but a lot was lost anyways
    Multiplatform games suffer
    That's just how it works
     
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    It still doesn't change the fact that I'm buying a PS4. Microsoft must have payed a LOT just to have a supposedly PS4 exclusive to be available for XBone. Why didn't they just make it for the Wii U instead?
     
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    Because the Wii U isn't powerful enough
     
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    It's too bad that the Wii U isn't powerful enough. If it was, we wouldn't have this problem..... maybe....
     
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    Well... if I'm honest, yeah, we still would
    Multiconsole is not something KH3 needs
     
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    Oh, Sony. You just made a good move and a bad move at the same time...
     
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    Sony didn't do anything, Square just got greedy
     
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    I personally think that because it'll be on the Xbone that it'll get critisicm or something because people won't understand or some bullcrap. I honestly like that the tradition of being a Playstation exclusive. Versus XIII (XV) fine, but NOT Kingdom Hearts.
     
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    Oh yeah....
     
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    I'm actual very disappointed in this turn of events and knew something like this would happen. The only reason why I didn't mind Kingdom Hearts being on Nintendo is because Sony and Nintendo are both Japanese companies... Sony Japan and Nintendo are both Japanese companies and I do enjoy my imported products. So for Kingdom Hearts to be on the XFail I'm not pleased. I mean if you really need money that badly go for it I'm not working for Square, but I'll just buy it for the PS4 no problem. However I think they might have brought it to the XBone because of Final Fantsay XI I thinkt hat was the first one for 360 or was it Final Fantasy X? Anyways that might have been it since with Final Fantasy its only been either for Nintendo or Sony so if you look at the pattern a lot of Square Enix Games went from Sony to Microsoft. Hitman is also another title that was put onto the Xbox, but for a while Sony would take names with that game. Now if God of War or Ratchet and Clank go on the XBone I quit Sony
     
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