Square Enix: No plans for Kingdom Hearts ports on Switch, technologically difficult, but another Nomura game may be ported

[Farsala]

KLXVER said:

Farsala said:
Porting is an expensive process. Even if the Switch version sold 2m, it might not break even...

Are they eating gold for lunch while porting it or what?

I wouldn't put it past SE, just think of how slow they are.

Here is an explanation on difficulties with porting to the Switch from stronger hardware.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/07/suikoden_successor_eiyuden_chronicle_could_be_our_first_confirmed_switch_2_game

Particularly, "when a lower spec platform has been listed on the campaign, it has invariably been too expensive, often times requiring downgrading textures, massive amounts of code rewrites, effectively meaning building two games."

So Nomura must have figured for most of his games building an entire new game on the Switch is not worth it.