Square debunks Kingdom Hearts 3 release date rumors

Discussion in 'Kingdom Hearts News & Updates' started by Misty, Feb 1, 2014.

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    Recently, an internal Square-Enix Europe document (pictured below) has been circulating on the internet, containing information about their soon-to-be-released titles (like Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII) and titles still in development (notably Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III).

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    No doubt in impatience for said titles, The Game Inquirer took the change from a TBC release date to 2014 as confirmation that the game may out sooner than anticipated. Square replied to these rumors shortly after:
    Suffice to say, Kingdom Hearts 3 won't be hitting the shelves anytime soon. From interviews and appearances, it's safe to say that the final chapter of the Xehanort Saga is still in very early development -- it's far too early to consider a release date, but that won't stop us from speculating! Anyone have predictions for a more realistic time frame?

    Sources: The Game Inquirer, Siliconera
     
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Discussion in 'Kingdom Hearts News & Updates' started by Misty, Feb 1, 2014.

    1. Satoshi Kusanagi
      Satoshi Kusanagi
      And then Nomura throws a curveball and KH DDD HD Remix comes out in 2015 instead, thus leaving H3 for 2016. lol

      I won't lie, I definitely don't want to wait all the way until 2016 for KH3 and especially not any longer than that, but honestly...I know we've pretty much got no choice. 2015 if we're being really optimistic, 2016 if we're lucky and anything past 2016 if we're being realistic and reasonable or keeping our hopes relatively low and pessimistic.
    2. Jin
      Jin
      This. Like I've said, production speed all depends on FF XV's sales, they're pretty low on funds to say the least due to piling their money onto;

      1; The Final Fantasy XIV revamp.
      2; Final Fantasy XV

      Now, the kingdom hearts remix's and now the 10/10-2 remasters I expect are to help fund and finish up XV now because lets be honest we've been waiting since 2006 it's been 8 years now. But I'll be honest here now we won't likely be seeing anything on KH3 until late 2016 of course they're still slowly progressing with it but the most they have done with KH3 is the graphics engine which was being worked on since 2010 they'll still need to design story and worlds and so forth and let's remember, this isn't a handheld KH which were relatively easy to produce. This is going to be a main series KH and with that not only does it need to live up to the expectation of it's predecessors it needs to go above and beyond especially with the PS4 capabilities you should be able to have worlds twice the size of what they used to be for the PS2 versions taking all this into consideration they haven't even been able to focus on KH3 yet because they need to release FF XV and also with Nomura we don't even know at this point if he plans to same stuff he's played with FF XV but FFXV wasn't designed for a specific console at the time, they've been waiting for a console that would be able to handle FF XV which says a lot what's even more is if FF XV sells well on console they'll be planning to release a PC version of it as well

      I digressed slightly but my main point is that hopefully square won't be pulling something like FF XV's wait again. But in short that KH 3 might even take until 2020 or 2018, the production gap between kh1 and kh2 was 3 years I believe so i'm sort of just estimating from there.
    3. Misty
      Misty
      We spoke a lot about why FFXV has been so delayed in Episode 37 of the podcast, but it's really not the developer's fault -- a lot of the blame can be placed on FFXIII. They yanked the team working on FFXV to help get FFXIII out, which seriously delayed the title. There are other reasons ( like I said, listen to the episode :) ) but that's a major one.
    4. Nowaki
      Nowaki
      Haha, well I wouldn't mind playing DDD HD Remix :'D Since DDD is the only game left which is not included in one of the two HD remixes, there could be the possibility of getting an own, single hd remix of it.
      But I don't know... I want KH 3 to be perfect and well developed but I wouldn't stand it if SE would take another Five thousand years of developing (like FF15)...
    5. Mike
      Mike
      I'm not sure how anyone could believe this, especially since Kingdom Hearts II.5 HD Remix hasn't released yet.

      But it would be nice to see Kingdom Hearts III by 2015. If not 2015, 2016 sounds about right too. That would be about ten years after the release of Kingdom Hearts II.
    6. Jin
      Jin
      Most likely I think they'll have something special planned for the 10 year anniversary of KH2, I think we would have expected II.5 RE:Mix but I believe that'll be coming out this year so who knows. I hope I do see something come out because it'll be like a graduation gift for me because I'll be graduating in 2016 haha
    7. Mike
      Mike
      We should be seeing Kingdom Hearts II.5 HD Remix for this year. At least for Japan...
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    9. Twero
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    10. Jin
      Jin
      Yes hopefully we will, but Most likely it'll be late this year; Probably October and then we'll probably get it May next year
      Well since it doesn't have an exact release date it makes me quite worried, If it takes a while to make we might not see it until 2015 but hopefully we will get it this year; along with J-stars victory vs (Just the japanese version coming out next month) the english version of Jojo All stars and Tales of Xillia 2.