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curl-6 on 01 March 2015

I hate to be a downer, but I'm expecting this to be something really meh, like that Ubisoft "Friends" game.



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Mystro-Sama on 01 March 2015

What's Tantalus?



Boutros on 01 March 2015
Materia-Blade said:
Boutros said:
Tlozjb said:

Though if that is the case, what is  Square Enix waiting to announce it? The collections have been released the year after the reveal, why would this get a different treatment? Not only that, but for which console would it even be? Kingdom Hearts 3D has the Dream Eaters and playing with them, as one of the focuses of the game, without a touch screen, it wouldn't work, so the only fit would be Wii U, and only releasing it on Wii U without the collections would look quite bad. 

Yeah, there is no sense to release them in a console that is not getting KH3, but Nintendo consoles has still being home to half of the Kingdom Hearts series, there is a fanbase there, a fanbase that has missed the collections, and that even though are not receiving KH3, should still receive the collections for being part of what has made Kingdom Hearts what it is.

But there's never been a Kingdom Hearts game on a Nintendo console. The Kingdom Hearts fanbase has been conditioned to own a Sony console and a Nintendo handheld. There really shouldn't be any Kingdom Hearts fans owning only a Nintendo console..

Do you realize how wrong all of that sounds? Then why aren't all games from all franchises exclusive? Of course there's KH audience on wii u, more than on x1.

What are you talking about?

Because I'm talking about the current allegiance of the Kingdom Hearts fanbase. I'm not talking about a potential new audience.



Materia-Blade on 01 March 2015
Boutros said:
Materia-Blade said:
Boutros said:

But there's never been a Kingdom Hearts game on a Nintendo console. The Kingdom Hearts fanbase has been conditioned to own a Sony console and a Nintendo handheld. There really shouldn't be any Kingdom Hearts fans owning only a Nintendo console..

Do you realize how wrong all of that sounds? Then why aren't all games from all franchises exclusive? Of course there's KH audience on wii u, more than on x1.

What are you talking about?

Because I'm talking about the current allegiance of the Kingdom Hearts fanbase. I'm not talking about a potential new audience.

I'm not talking about a new audience either. there wasn't a kingdom hearts for home consoles in over 10 years and, in the meantime, the audience was divided/created on sony and nintendo handhelds.



Boutros on 01 March 2015
Materia-Blade said:
Boutros said:
Materia-Blade said:

Do you realize how wrong all of that sounds? Then why aren't all games from all franchises exclusive? Of course there's KH audience on wii u, more than on x1.

What are you talking about?

Because I'm talking about the current allegiance of the Kingdom Hearts fanbase. I'm not talking about a potential new audience.

I'm not talking about a new audience either. there wasn't a kingdom hearts for home consoles in over 10 years and, in the meantime, the audience was divided/created on sony and nintendo handhelds.

Exactly...

The existing Kingdom Hearts fans aren't Wii U only owners.



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Keybladewielder on 01 March 2015

Rayman Origins I have no idea



umegames on 01 March 2015
anthony64641 said:

kingdom hearts 3U (Ultmate Edition with excluive content such as Nintendo outfits and etc)


you're going to make my heart faint with such thoughts



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DarkRPGamer007 on 01 March 2015

Unknown company porting an unknown game to Wii U????



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flagstaad on 01 March 2015
Mystro-Sama said:
What's Tantalus?

Is a small developer who has some minor IPs and also has work on great ports for the Wii U, Mass Effect 3 and Deus Ex to be precise, so people are hopeful that this new port is also good. They have a good track record of working with the Unreal Engine and using the gamepad, sadly their ports tend to sell very poorly for publishing decisions, like selleing the full trilogy for the full price 1 week before of the ME3 game for the WiiU or also releasing the director's cut in the other console for 20 U$ less at the same time.



justiceiro on 01 March 2015

Guitar hero could fit, but i'm not sure that would be a bigger game than deus ex or mass effect, altough consider them making possible to play with the game pad, and maybe we have sometinhg taht will demand a lot of work.

Next, we could say lara croft and the temple of osiris, but another case where we could hardly call big.

Another guess could be final fantasy: a realm reborn, altough would be a pretty niche market on a alreadly niche console, but fits.

But my real guess was the sims 4. Problably the only game that ea could see selling something on the console, would fit the gamepad, the low requeriment on pc probably mean a low cost on porting, but would take some work to make the controls work well on the gamepad, and i'm not sure if EA would paya studio to work on the port now for more than 1 year, but, hey, probably we will find out at E3.



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