Chain of Memories Why wasnt this on the DS?

If they put this on the DS, It could have had better graphics, sound, and controls. It was released close to the DS's release, so why couldn't it have been a launch title?

 

i have in fact wonderd this my self... but i have come up with nothing


the world may never know

 

It was never on the DS because when the creators first thought of KH:CoM, the DS wasn't out. So, they put it on the GBA.

 

the DS came out too close to KH2 to have it released on it, and CoM came out over a year before the DS anyways.

 

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No, CoM came out in 2004. The DS came out in 2004.

 

actually, Com was done spring 2004 i think in japan, but that was only finished, they released it at late 2004 and Ds was released.

 

Yeah, I know, but like I said, when the thought of KH:CoM's thought of coming out, they didn't know the exact date of the DS. Square Enix isn't a part of nintendo, they just make the games. So they wouldn't know all about the DS.

 

Hissora has a very good point....

 

hmmm if they made it for the DS, then i wouldnt have gotten into KH...cause i wouldnt be able to get the rom...

 

I don't think Square Enix wanted it to be on the DS.

 

If they made it for the DS, then it would have taken more time probably for it to come out not only in Japan, but in the U.S. too. They would have had to convert the graphics and stuff onto the DS.

Also, one reason may have been this: They wouldn't know how well it would sell, since the DS would have been new. The Gameboy series sold a lot of units. Marketing could have been a part of it. They would have probably had to see how well the DS would sell before doing that. If it would have been like now-a-days, it probably would have been made for the NDS.

 

what difference does it really make? DS users can play as well anyway

 

That's true about the being able to play KH:CoM on the DS. The only huge difference in the game, if it was for the DS, would have been graphics, and maybe some gameplay. But people can still play it on the DS.

 

I don't think it matters. It wasn't a very good game anyway.

 

Do you know if they are going to make another inbetween game from KH2-KH3?

 

Who knows? And it would be just a waste of time to release it on the DS now.

 

Also KH:CoM had it's own specially designed GBA, which i wished i owned. It would've made no sense to just drop that.

 

First off, CoM was a great game, in most cases i prefer it over the first KH title...and word is it wasnt released on the DS because they felt that there was a larger market for it on GBA and the DS launch date was still a month+ ahead, and could have been pushed back further.

 

Well you can play gameboy games on a DS so if you have a DS you can still play it and i think the graphics are all right for a GB game.

 

It was something that they were able to incorperate the fmv scenes and the song for the game, since it was a GBA game.