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windbane said:
naznatips said:
DonWii said:
http://www.kingdomhearts3.net/tetsuya-nomura-interviewed/

About the new Kingdom Hearts title that will be announced after summer this year (2007), will that be a direct sequel?
Tetsuya Nomura: “Hmm…I’m not sure how much I can say. I’ll start of by saying that it’s not Kingdom Hearts 3.”

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What platform does it look like the next game will be released on?
Tetsuya Nomura: “Hmm… Probably a hand-held platform. Right now we’re working on titles for the PSP (FFVII Crisis Core), Nintendo DS (This Wonderful World) and for mobile phones (MONOTONE), so I wouldn’t be surprised if it were on any of those platforms.”

Good interview.

Oh wow... I missed the handheld part. Now I DO expect a DS game.


And I expect a PSP game. It's similar to the PS2 in power and that's what the first 2 KH games are on.

Also, the PSP redesign that you seem to think didn't improve anything is actually a worthy upgrade. The load times are better and with the old battery the battery life is much better (not a problem for me, but I do have a Nyko Case with an X2 battery as well). 33% lighter is pretty good considering the design of the original was so good. Video out is a great option for bringing the games and movies to the TV after you get home. Those are 3 great upgrades.

The DS to DS-lite was impressive because the original design was clunky. I almost think Nintendo does it on purpose.

Anyway, we'll see, but I'll have to get a DS at some point to play this and that GBA game (DS plays GBA advance games I hope).



I'd expect DS when it comes down to Handheld vs. Handheld for these reasons:

Square Enix seems to support the DS much more, which isn't all that surprising considering most of their sales come from Japan and the DS sells 6 times as many games as the PSP in Japan (12 times as many if you don't count Monster Hunter, which literally counts for half of PSP Japanese software sales over the last 7 months).  They also have a game from the KH team (including it's lead developer, Nomura) currently being made for the DS called It's a Wonderful World (though it's themes are much darker than KH themes).  It's possible that this game is being created partly as a way to get the developers familiar with the DS hardware.  I would expect the DS over the PSP, mostly because SE simply shows a large amount of support for the DS and some tentative support for the PSP.