Kingdom Hearts series coming to Switch as cloud versions

[RedKingXIII]

twintail said:

RedKingXIII said:

I just don't understand why they didn't even port the HD 1.5+2.5 natively. What's the issue? They're PS3 games. It's not hardware related. Is it storage? So then they couldn't just sell them separately and actually compress the games? Hell, they even did this before: iirc FF12 is like 50GB on PS4 and on Switch it fits a 16GB cart. Couldn't they do the same for 1.5 and 2.5? If the games are too big and they didn't want to spent too much on cartridges, couldn't they just do a digital only release? It's good that the games are on Switch in some form, but my god Square Enix is so stupid.

I mean, porting from PS3 to Switch is not like a day's work. PS4 to switch is obviously easier but it's still going to require a lot of work to do. 

The way I see it, they probably felt because KH3 was not something they were willing to port, there was no need for the other entries. 

It's hard to tell how much effort is really needed to put these games on Switch since the porting proccess is not as easy as doing a PS4 and XB1 version of a game, but still, the 1.5+2.5 Collection is a bunch PS2 and PSP games upscaled. They already ported other PS4 remasters of PS2 games to Switch too, so I really don't get it. I think maybe there's some technical issue and they don't think it's worth trying to or not possible to overcome, but in the end it's just a weird situation. Like I said, it's just PS2/PSP games upscaled.