Prediction- we won't see Kingdom Hearts 3 until 2018, at the earliest

[VanceIX]

KingdomHeartsFan said:

VanceIX said:

KingdomHeartsFan said:

They are not making an engine from the ground up for KH3, they are using the luminous engine that was already done.  Also ofc there is gonna be new worlds, there was new worlds in KH2, that didn't make it take 6 years to develop.  I'll say it again since you keep avoiding the question, what specifically is gonna take this game 6 years to develop.

Even Nomura thinks that they announced the game too early.

http://gematsu.com/2013/06/kingdom-hearts-iii-announced-a-little-early

And they are using an existing engine, but they will have to do more than just some minor modifications.

And did you even read my post? I said that Kingdom Hearts 2 ported over almost all the graphical elements from Kingdom Hearts 1. The team did not have to spend any time developing those (which is what takes the longest), so all they had to do was use the existing elements and even worlds and just add to them a little. 

With this, you are developing for a completely different generation. All your graphical elements must be built from the ground-up.

Ofc they announced it early, the game had only been in development for 1 year, that proves nothing.  Your really grasping for anything now.

I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt since you've never played KH1, but no there was not just minor modifications, KH2 looks leaps and bounds better than KH1.  They did not "port over almost all the graphical elements."  The fact that you think the team "did not spend any time developing those" in KH2 is laughable.  

If you think elements from Kingdom Hearts 1 weren't reused, power to you.

They were though. A bit better does not mean they built Kingdom Hearts 2 from the ground-up. There's no way they would be able to finish a game that fast if they did. The engine, perhaps, but textures, meshes, etc. were undoubtedly reused in many places.