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Tetsuya Nomura doesn’t seem to have much of a preference between the two platforms that will host Kingdom Hearts III, as he expressed as part of an interview interview for the online spin-off of the Japanese magazine Famitsu.

When asked about using Luminous Studio with the game he talked about porting the game to PS4 and Xbox One, and shared an additional tidbit of trivia about the trailer we saw at E3:

We used Luminous as main engine for the game. We’re developing over-spec (Editor’s note: this is the term he actually uses in English), so porting to both the PS4 and Xbox One is very similar. In addition to this, in the battle part of the trailer there was an issue with the tool so we had to use pre-rendered video, but if you look at the parts where it is animated  in real time there’s no big difference.

He also shared some very interesting information about a new shader the development team is using for the game and that will ensure a high degree of visual variety:

We’re using a visual tool called “Kingdom Shader”. In the original world characters will retain their original textures, but the shader is adjusted by world, so we’ll have an unique visual style in each of Disney’s worlds.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/07/02/tetsuya-nomura-porting-kingdom-hearts-iii-to-ps4-and-xbox-one-very-similar-introduces-the-kingdom-shader/

That sounds really cool! I hope they give a tentative release date this year!!

but but but PS4 is so much more powerful than Xbone :,(...........

Sonyfanboys will cry if they read this.

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This means the PS4 version is worse than the version their developing. :P. yes?

ZOMG THE PS4 is dumbing down the game AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

He never said anything about power. It's simple to port from PS4 to Xbone or vice versa because of their similar architecture.

OT: The titbid of KH3 information sounds incredible, can't wait to see it for myself!

Dance Dance Revolution 5 will always be limited to 3rd party developers taking the easy route and making identical multiplats.

Makes sense.

I'm curious to see if Xbox fans will even buy Kingdom Hearts 3. This is the first chance Xbox has with this series..

Kingdom Hearts also appeared on the GBA, then the DS and 3DS. Anything is possible.

I wish it went to the Wii U as well.

KH3 on the Xbone isn't even that strange. Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX not releasing on the Xbox360 is strange. At this point it could only benefit them. I doubt a port of the PS3 version would cost very much and any sold copy might increase the fanbase of Kingdom Hearts on the Xbox, which in return would increase the sales of Kingdom Hearts III.

tl;dr: Release Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX on the Xbox360, increase KH3 sales.

Maybe It's just really cheap to port from PS4 to XB1? Making it almost "stupid" to not port if theres no money hatting for exclusives.