naznatips on 15 September 2007
| Apostrovich said: SE developed and published it, but that doesn't really mean much as to ownership. The available information points to KH having apparently been developed with a lot of input from Disney....more than I thought...and apparently Disney has rights to the new characters in KH, just not the old ones. So that means as long as there are not Final Fantasy characters in it, Disney can do what they want. Would be messed up if all this was wrong and they decided to keep all of them on Sony consoles though. |
That's correct. Although Square Enix co-developed and published it, it was developed with Disney's characters and under Disney's IP. The publisher does not automatically retain rights to a game. The best example of this is Banjo Kazooie, which was developed by Rare and published by Nintendo. However, Rare retained the rights to it, and when they were bought by Microsoft, Microsoft gained the rights to it with Rare.
