The web is floating with rumors that a possible release date for Kingdom Hearts 3 will be “spring” 2014 and that an “insider” confirmed the news straight from Square Enix. Not only does this sound absurd; but there is absolutely no way Kingdom Hearts 3 will be released in 2014 due to the fact that it is in extremely early stages of development and the fact that Nomura himself said he was taking the time to promote the new Final Fantasy XV, a game he wanted to create for the longest time. Fans still believe that it will be out in 2014, despite the facts in front of them. Square Enix Origin is about to put the “2014 spring release date” rumor to a rest.
Footage from an early Kingdom Hearts 3 prototype has confirmed Square Enix's original plans to include assets from Final Fantasy Versus XIII.
The first two titles in the trilogy were already Steam Deck Verified, but now Kingdom Hearts III has gotten its coveted green checkmark.
Travis Bruno of Capsule Computers writes:
"When it comes to the Kingdom Hearts franchise, fans have had a variety of ways to play it throughout its incredibly long length. They could have followed it from 2002’s original release and subsequent questionably canon releases on handheld devices only to return to the core game again with Kingdom Hearts II to find out that yes, they were canon. Then in that wait until the third game the mixture of titles along the way and other numerous platforms would make following Kingdom Hearts‘ story a challenge even for the most eager fan. Square Enix made up for this prior to Kingdom Hearts III’s release by bringing together an HD pack collecting the game’s together in an easier to digest package for fans and releasing them on consoles only for PC fans to be left in the dark. That is of course until all of the games arrived on PC, but not in a way that many had hoped. See, PC users can be a fickle bunch and when the Kingdom Hearts collection arrived on PC exclusively through Epic Games, it may as well not exist. Now, three years after the fact, these same PC players can now enjoy the exact same games on Steam with a bit of extra support including Steam Deck compatibility with Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece. The question is, do all of these games still hold up on their Steam PC ports?"
Far from a 9, Square have left these games a janky mess since their epic release. Even now they have not said anything about fixing some of the problems that many steam reviews mention. You gotta download the re:fined mod to fix what square refuses to do.
Way too soon, we should be getting Kingdom Hearts 2.5 Remix by then and only that game. I want Kingdom Hearst III to be bigger and better than any KH game before it, and it should take a while to make
Not a chance. KH3's gameplay was, according to Nomura the most "functional" build they had, they are still deciding worlds to go into the game.
If it was to be due out next year, gameplay would need to be mostly finalized already.
No. The game will probably be out after FF XV, for which we don't have any release date yet. And we probably won't have one anytime soon. So we'll have to wait a lot longer to see KH III come out.
2014 is when we will be reminded the game still exists.
2015 we will see a teaser trailer of Sora tying his right shoe.
2016 will be the year we hear nothing
2017. It will be pushed back from the release date that was never announced.
2018. Sora ties his left shoe trailer
2019. Demo releases
2020. Game is released and it's 9 hours long.
Lol yeah right. I'm thinking late 2015, early 2016 release knowing Square Enix.