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

[Farsala]

KLXVER said:

Farsala said:

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.

Well I dont think people expected KH3. The 1.5 and 2.5 collections are PS3 games.

You have to remember that SE would expect greater sales and profits from KH3 vs 1.5 and 2.5. So while the port may be a bit cheaper, the sales and profits would be expected to be less.

IcaroRibeiro said:

Farsala said:

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.

I can accept that (with a grain of salt) for Kingdom Hearts 3

1.5, 2.5 and 2.8 in no way suffers this issue  

Same as above, except 2.8 is same engine as KH3.