Rumor: Kingdom of Hearts III To Be PS3 Exclusive (Scan Revealed)

GameXtract writes "Not too long ago rumors had surfaced that Kingdom of Hearts III had been sighted in OPM as a PS3 exclusive. Of course we weren't convinced being the visual bastards we are, but now we have more concrete proof of this rumor. Below we have a scan of the UK OPM issue of Kingdom of Hearts III, and if you scroll down towards the bottom you will notice in one of the circles it will say "Kingdom of Hearts III is in development as a PS3 exclusive and will be announced at TGS ." We will leave you guys to debate over if this rumor is true or just another false piece of info. Get a good look at the screen after the jump."

[RadientFlux]

While the scan doesn't prove anything. If it turns out to be true its good news for Kingdom of Hearts fans that wanted the series moved to the PS3.

Personally I'm not a big fan of the series.

[cahill]

KH and FF sell the most in europe and Japan

And u saw the fate of TOV and other RPGS on x360 in Japan and europe

KH and FF usually sell 70% of total sales in EU and JAP

so a good decision but it was expected

FF13 is also exclusive to ps3 in Japan and it would be launched a year ahead of US/EU versions on ps3/x360

FF13 v and WKS are ps3 exclusives if u are unaware

[Jamie Foxx]

disc space limitations and hopefully understanding the cell hopefully the developers can do the game the next-gen justice it deserves like hideo did with mgs4,

[mohib-uddin7986532]

Because Disney backs the Blu Ray association and has a long agreement and does not want its IP's on HD-DVD.

But when HD DVD died the agreement still stood.

[Bombibomb]

I guess it makes sense. Square-Enix published two 360 exclusives (Infinite Undiscovery [flop] and Star Ocean 4). Nomura (director of Kingdom Hearts), being the PS3 fanboy that he truly is, won't make a multi-platform KH game. He wants quality and for that he needs Blu-ray. He himself admitted that he was very surprised when FFXIII went multi-platform. If he works at Square-Enix why would he be surprised? That's easy. It was a last minute decision by Square-Enix right before E3 / Microsoft paid them millions.

Nomura has confirmed that Versus XIII will remain PS3 exclusive WORLDWIDE, not just in Japan, unlike XIII. If you REALLY want him to make KH3 for PS3, make sure you buy Versus XIII. If it sells well, you'll be making it a lot easier for him to make up his mind about where his future games will end up. We need talented geniuses like him developing PS3 exclusives for us. Exclusives > Multi-platform

@ mohib: 360 games are made on normal DVD's, not HD-DVD's.

[SullyDrake]

Think about it: If it's a Wii exclusive, it'll have gimmicky controls and the visuals won't be much better than KH and KHII, two games that were known for pushing the PS2 visually as well as the simple-but-fun ARPG gameplay, surprisingly deep story and Disney collaberation. I'm guessing that the developers are going to want to continue this trend and bring true next-gen visuals to KHIII.

If it's 360 only or also on 360, the 360 kids will only play it to rub it in the faces of the true KH fans who are getting it on PS3. I bet most 360 fans haven't even played KH and KHII, due to them being PS2 exclusive. Plus, it'll be at least 3 discs I'd believe if it were on 360.

So PS3-exclusive is logical, profitable, and a good way for Square-Enix to kiss and make-up to Sony and their fans. KH is a Sony series, so let's hope Square-Enix don't let money blind them into gimping it on the Wii or 360.

[Euphrate]

If the "Wii" would be the best choice,then why didn't SE develop FFXIII for the Wii? Wouldn't they have made more money on the Wii?

The 360 doesn't "rule" the west, the PAL region( everywhere but US/JP) is very much in favour of Sony. And in America the Playstation 3 has been outselling the 360 for the last year. So you expect Square to overlook PAL ( which brings in more money than US ) to simply satisfy the 360 owners? What about Japan? Square will surely release KH in Japan too, this is standard, and the format for that is the Playstation 3. The Wii holds a small attach rate, with more then 70% of the games on the system developed by Nintendo. Casual crowd sucks at that, which is why you don't see many developers other than the huge ones that can afford it, develope for it.

Square wouldn't have made FF13 multiplat unless they desperately needed the additional funding to make all these games, and Microsoft has partly paid for these developement costs. For instance, the Final Fantasy that was supposed to be on Mobile could have easily been set up for Nintendo DS, since the install base is bigger and those things practically print teh moniez, yet Square has made its decision to release it on the PSP instead, which costs more to make.

The Obvious choice for Nomura would be, to make it PS3/Wii,making the Playstation version first( Timed Exclusive) and then porting it to the Wii,since not the amount of work on quality has to be spent on developing for the Wii, simple as that. Both to satisfy his Kojima-like love for the Playstation brand( an example is FFXIIIVS) and to make the additional profit.

It must suck for those who can only afford a 360 though, they get a lot of RPG's but not nessecarily the best ones, Versus has a very,very good chance of being the next DMC, but with amazingly good cut-scenes. Kingdom Hearts looks awesome if any of you watched the Trailer for it and the trailer gives it, that Dark "Playstation 3 " look to it

[Aquanox]

I'm already vacuumed against these rumors. Star Ocean IV was heavily rumored to be a PS3 exclusive before it was announced only for the Xbox 360.

These rumors are more wishful thinking than any kind of proof.

[Harry190]

As much as I like Kingdom Hearts and I am pretty sure it's going to come out on the PS3, the best piece of news I read in this scan was about Boom Blox moving to the PS3. I mean, Boom Blox is a great great game and I am very happy that those rumours are probably going to turn out to be true. I am looking forward to this and it will make me very happy.

The only question now is:

Will it be on disc or in the Playstation Store and Live Arcade?

WOW, Geometry Wars is going to land on PSN too. That's even greater news. I can't believe those rumours were overlooked due to the KH3 one. I mean, come on, those are just great news for Playstation owners and are as important as the KH3 one.

[zo6_lover27]

Can you give links to those cause I'm interested

EDIT

I just skipped to the KH3 part, I feel stupid now -_-

[Harry190]

in the article. Check the scan.

http://gamextract.com/wp-co...

[cahill]

u saw the fate of many RPGS which were launched on other consoles in Japan and europe

the devs lost millions on RPGS of some other console

so it is a logical decision that FF13v/WKS/KH would all be ps3 exclusives

[kingme71]

Yeah, I agree. The whole point of Boom Blox is the motion.

[harrisk954]

"boom blox without the remote doesn't quite have the same allure"

Well, hopefully they can use the sixaxis controls to implement this. It works very well on the PSN Bowling game.

[Cheeseknight28]

"Well, hopefully they can use the sixaxis controls to implement this. It works very well on the PSN Bowling game. "

But bowling and throwing/grabbing objects are very different things. I can't see any way that they could use Sixaxis as a way to lob balls or grab blocks that would be comfortable.

Bowling is a bit simpler, because all you would have to do is tilt the control to add tilt to the ball. But semi-throwing a controller to toss a ball doesn't seem like it would work.

[mfwahwah]

Boom Blox and a downloadable title "are as important as the KH3 one?" Yeah, KH3 is MUCH bigger news than Boom Blox and a rumor about GW that has already been brought up in the past.

[InfiniteUnfloppery]

Square Enix are now crawling back to Sony's Teet

[mohib-uddin7986532]

THE TITLE SAYS KINGDOM OF HEARTS III

what the heck. how can you mess that up. A lot of my friends also call it Kingdom of Hearts. argh.............

[Sir_Ken_Kutaragi]

They will have a World Exclusive Review of 'LBP' next Month ;-P
+ Maybe a 'LBP Special Gift???' with the (UK)Magazine!!! ;-P
HOPE it's a SACK-BOY TOY or a Sticker Book!!! ;)
(Well off Topic that was!!!) ;-D Delete my comment Mod's!!!;)

[juuken]

If that rumor is true...let the ass kicking begin. o.o

[Snake Raiser]

It was 1000. I can imagine what it would be like on the ps3, that battle kind of sucked if you compare it to games now because their were 1000 people, but only 10-20 who were not part of the back "ground".
That being said, It was an amazing game and I am waiting for the 3rd.
The picture looks like it could be real... or fake, I can't tell.

[Snake Raiser]

Agreed

[Saki_waki]

All of my friends (or some) call it Kingdom of hearts when I clearly said Kingdom Hearts right in their face. Whats so hard about saying Kingdom hearts dammit?

[InfiniteUnfloppery]

Should we allow the Dying Japanese RPG maker back to our Supple Bosom?

[InfiniteUnfloppery]

Or should we only provide our Milk Exclusively to Level-5,the much Superior Japanese RPG maker?

[InfiniteUnfloppery]

We have come to a unanimous decision regarding this Milk matter:

[InfiniteUnfloppery]

Square Enix will,from here on out,never receive their Calcium needs from our Healthy bodies.

[InfiniteUnfloppery]

Instead,we will direct their Dry Mouths over to Microsofts Spoiled Breasts.

[PlayStation360]

"Sony's Teet", "Supple Bosom", "...unanimous decision regarding this Milk matter", "Spoiled Breasts"! I know you might piss some folks off with those comments, but I'm sorry that there is hilarious. XD

Bubble+ heading your way bro.

[butterfinger]

I wouldn't believe this even if they came out and announced it as an exclusive today. However, if it is really a PS3 exclusive, that is terrific for Sony and KH fans. I'm sure a lot of people purchased their PS3's with intentions of getting this game.

[cahill]

after the fate of TOV u can expect most JRPGS to be ps3 exclusives

[mfwahwah]

13 was NEVER guaranteed to be PS3 exclusive. If you want to compare it to something, then compare it to Versus 13. Same team, same director, and Versus 13 is WORLD WIDE (that means everywhere) PS3 exclusive.

[B-Rein]

yep thts 1 of teh games

resons i bought ps3

WHite Knight Chronicles
Final Fantasy XIII VERSUS
Final Fantasy XIII (sadly on xbox 360 aswel now)
Kingdom Hearts III
GOD OF WAR III
another dragon quest game
another ICO game
FF7 Remake (i wish)
and so on (there are many other games i want aswel)
also the new franchises that are coming out are good

[SeanScythe]

Kingdom of Hearts III? Should it be Kingdom Hearts III

[zo6_lover27]

Yes, its should. But they scan says Kingdom Hearts 3 so its probably a mistake on GameXtracts part

[mohib-uddin7986532]

SeanSythe you are very smart

did you knwo that cambirdge university have discovered that the brain cannot procces the word "of"

but yours did.

[Bladestar]

that tells you a thing or two about this rumor...

maybe Kingdom of Hearts III will be exclusive and not Kingdom Hearts III

[zo6_lover27]

No, its talking about Kingdom Hearts 3 :P

http://gamextract.com/wp-co...

It says "Kingdom Hears 3" It was that website that made a mistake.

[zo6_lover27]

Hopefully
But I don't really care as long as it comes out for the ps3 I'll be happy, just as long as it isn't announced as an exclusive then suddenly changed later.

KH is one of my favorite game series of all time, possibly my favorite so please be true

[vhero]

also look careful geometry wars is coming to ps3! thats lives top title out the window

[HighDefinition]

Were my favorite games when I had a 360.

GeoWars is amazing, So is Dead Rising

GeoWars PS3 would be a GREAT thing.

[blusoops]

I've never played Geo Wars..but would you say it's better than Super Stardust HD? just curious not trying to flame.

SSHD is my favorite dual stick shooter by the way!

[HighDefinition]

I like them the pretty much the same, their both just VERY different to how they play out. Get it if you like SSHD, you won`t be disappointed.

[kwicksandz]

Geo wars 1 was was not as good as SSHD but geo wars 2 is the new king of dual stick shmups!

[calis]

isn't this screen from the birth by sleep video?

[Mr_Kuwabara]

Yup, the secret trailers of KH2 are from the PSP game.

[Bombibomb]

ROFL ^^^^^^^^

[UltimateIdiot911]

I enjoy the Kingdom Heart series since I enjoy Disney movies (most but not all. I hope the rumors are true and for KH3 to have Pixar characters. A Wall-e world would be awesome.

[XxRoosterxX]

Hope it is an excluseive the previous 2 were very good, and i'm not even RPG fan.

Off topic: Has anyone had the SOCOM beta key emailed to them yet?

[Aclay]

I would love to think that Kingdom Hearts 3 will be a PS3 exclusive, but I doubt it will be.

Before Final Fantasy XIII came to the 360 and before Star Ocean 4 was announced for the 360, I would have had 100% confidence that KH3 would be a PS3 exclusive, but now I'm not so sure.

But, I do hope that it does end up being a PS3 exclusive because it would mean more PS3 sales for Sony. And if KH3 doesn't end up a PS3 exclusive, I hope that the development cycle will be like FFXIII's development, with the PS3 version being developed first and the 360 version coming at a later date.

[UltimateIdiot911]

Well, FFVsXIII is still PS3 exclusive and Nomura is a huge Playstation fan. If he's like Kojima, he'll make sure it stays a Playstation exclusive. Exclusive FTW.

[cemelc]

Well i still think that no matter what square says about the ps3 version being first for FFXIII, now that is going to be in development for the 360, they will start thinking in the xbox 360 arquitecture a little, and in the end the japan version is going to be toned down, "imagine the mayor uproar if the japan version looks and play better than the american, cos the game is a multiplatform here".

[zo6_lover27]

WTF?^^^^^LMAO :D

[cemelc]

Square you better show some respect for the PS3, cos now we arent buying a last gen Rpg, "made that ways cos it have to fit the xbox 360 puny dvd".

[DJ]

Aw crap, there goes my social life.

[Bengoshi-San]

Hold on... so a picture of a written rumor is more credible than a regular text rumor?

Wow... .FAIL

[cemelc]

If this turn out to be true, youll be crying a lot.

I dont think in the official playstation magazine are going to put a rumor that has no foothold.

Perhaps it was a deal between PS3 and Square, Square would accept the money from M$ and develope some RPG, in exchange thell be keeping certain exclusives only for the PS3 Branch(doesnt sound that off, since Sony own like 12% of square, hence impossible for them not to know that FFXIII was heading for the Xbox 360).

[ukilnme]

@ cemelc

Do you have any proof of MS paying Square or is this just more speculation? Is Sony paying to keep this exclusive? I would really like to know.

[kingme71]

TGS is in October, not September.

[cemelc]

Yeah i got a proof of it:

M$ is been buying time exclusive since the start of this generation.

Namco is the first company to fall to this degree, is releasing RPG after RPG on xbox 360 and have them sell what? 300k per rpg?(why would a company release a game that simply its crowd doesn't want?, their profit has been reduce by 75% cos of this),then not telling that the game is on the way for the PS3 till 6 month later(why would they hide the fact that are making the same game for the ps3??? is not embarrassing, and is great opportunity for all gamers(contractual issues is how you called them this days).

Moving on with Square case, i can tell you that money was behind square move by three simple facts:
1-Xbox is dead in japan.
2-Japan is the #1 buyers in the Rpg market.
3-Square is a company that just make Rpg.

Let me explain this another way, if a company like square is seeing that all the other rpg are struggling in the machine, you either got two choices to make, should i develop or should i leave the machine to focus on the other(PS3):

And we Know that square took the first one, why a company would take such a hi risk of making 3 RPG to go to a console that is actually struggling in this market????(financially a experiment could be reasonable, but 3 game deal its simple putting the fate of the company on a bet "will player would suddenly pick up the genre???").

Then if you have come here for the last year you could probably catch the news of square having financial issues, and gets you to think why would a company that is having financial issues is making 3 games to a console that simply don't want them?, why after stating the game was a PS3 exclusive suddenly make it multiplatform?, why japan remains exclusive?,If square was so much trouble financially, why suddenly start creating the game?, wouldn't that create more debt?.

[ukilnme]

@ cemelc

So it's just speculation. There was no need for you to type all of that out.

[cemelc]

I hope it remain a PS3 eclusive

[ukilnme]

The beauty of supporting multiple consoles is that you don't have to miss out on exclusives such as this. That's the power of the PSWii60.

[DarthTigra]

Great owning all 5 current gen consoles isnt it?

[ukilnme]

I'm confused. 5?

[Aeroglyphics]

I think he's including the PSP and DS.

[Jamegohanssj5]

Let me see; who's the head guy behind this game?

TGSI

[zonetrooper5]

TGS is not until the end of October btw so still a month left.

[Freak of Nature]

Actually it's in the 2nd week of October...5 weeks away....

Now bring me this in full HD glory with the PS3's power to push it and I will be quite the happy gamer...

Oh....And some Trico and Beyond good and evil 2 info would be the icing and cherry on top of the pie for me.....

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

This would be really good news!

I like Kingdom Hearts more than Final Fantasy anyway...

[Gr81]

Final Fantasy was THE rpg for the PS3, and if a game of that status isn't exclusive to PS3 than KH being exclusive seems very unlikely. From a business perspective is doesn't make sense as development costs are astronomical. I'm almost certain that even the JRPG's releasing on the 360 will probably make their way to PS3 also, for the simple fact that if the games don't hit the million mark the companies make no profit. To maximize the chance of making profit off of a game that cost many millions to make it makes sense to put the games on as many platforms as possible. That's all I'm saying. We'll see.

[DJ]

Isn't much to swallow for Square-Enix. Also, Microsoft hasn't shown any interest in purchasing multiplatform rights for this series, and in any case Disney Interactive wouldn't allow it.

[pwnsause]

good. thats what i wanted to see.

[Snake Raiser]

I am glad it was not some stupid article with no evidence.

[TheColbertinator]

lol Queefy B.

I saw that rumor of Boom Blox and Geometry Wars coming to PSN and I was just freaked out.Those two games are really good on XBLA and the Wii but to see them on PS3/PSN would be amazing.

Sega is most likely remaking Jet Set Radio and Kingdom Hearts 3 but I have a bad feeling and a really bad feeling that Kingdom Hearts III will come to the Wii.I don't know why but with the latest decisions made by Sqare Enix,I can sense it and it would'nt surprise me.

[Kleptic]

Geometry wars...definitely...have it on my laptop...its great, but twin sticks is obviously better than a keyboard for that type of game...

SSHD is equally good though imo...with better visuals...its just both games overall are not very long...

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

I don't honestly care all that much...

...if more people get to experience Kingdom Hearts, it will make the world better.

I swear on the life of everybody I know...if even ONE 360 gamer complains about Kingdom Hearts and says they don't like it, I WILL SHOOT THEM!

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Mmm exclusives..yummy!

[Dmack79]

One can only HOPE. plz be true....plz.

[jerethdagryphon]

either way i get more power of the keyblade

off topic whats the chances of an ace ocmbat announcment at tgs
its been about a year since 6 at elast

[KingDizzi]

Well Nomura is the director of KH and considering he did not allow versus to go on 360, well you make your own decision now. The Wii sounds about right though, casual gamers would love this game.

[VF34EJ25]

Ok ok, this whole "not allowing" to be on another console thing is ridiculous.

Nomura works for Yoichi Wada or Square Enix. That's the boss. If the Boss says "I want this game on the Xbox360." Then Nomura has no choice. Either that, or quit.

[dizlaoboi916]

hopefully microsoft will roll out another 50 million dollar check to put this on 5 disks lol

[drdre74]

wont happen plus its in the rumor section lol! Who cares anyway so long as its on my system then i could care less, plus i have a psp so i'll be getting all the Kingdom hearts love i can ever need.

[theKiller]

other wise it will reflect sales directly!!

this news must have hurt the bots feelings so badly!! but what can i say to them??

[Shane Kim]

Ha! As much as I want this fúcking game to be exclusive, I find it very hard to belive since it's Squeal Penix.

[Silogon]

Not happening, guys. Not happening. Wake up and smell the money train.

[kingme71]

Why does he call it Kingdom of Hearts?

Maybe SE is just waiting for Microsoft to roll in with their dump truck of money to buy it for the 360. They probably have it in the works for the 360 already, holding out to see if MS will pay for it.

Just an off topic note. I'm playing KH1 right now on the PS3. I know... a little behind the times :) Having fun even though the camera sucks.

[dan88123]

I remember playing the early one's. Great game. The 360 can have all the exlusive rpg's they want. Just let the PS3 have KH3 and the two new final fantasies.

[SolidSnake93]

Moh is copying COD now they will also make a current events game. I hope that it's good.

[Ngai]

Yea like the exclusive Final Fantasy XIII..

[Common Sense]

You made a mistake. I bet this is what you meant :" Yea like the exclusive Final Fantasy V. XIII...".

[RSX]

Kinda funny i just picked up KH2 yesterday. Then this article pops up.

[NanoGeekTech]

KH3.........

[juuken]

Please let this rumor be true!

[cemelc]

In trumor killers seem to think that this is also true:

I mean it is the oficial magazine of the PlayStation, besides square also promised another exclusive for the PS3.

Guess in a month will be seeing the answer anyway

[juuken]

I've never played a Kingdom Hearts game. I should pick up the first two or at least the second one so that's why I'm rooting so hard for this game.

[cemelc]

KH1 is Epic, the Second one is also great and has my favorite boss fight ever

You cant go wrong with KH is a great RPG

[juuken]

So I shall get both of them if I can find them. :]
I like epic fights.

[UltimateIdiot911]

Yeah, KH is great. I just beat it this summer. Didn't play 2 yet. The dialogues were very corny but I loved it.

[Naked-Snake]

Isn't it Kingdom Hearts 3?

[Kappa Mikey]

yay

[big shadow]

thats cool

[xtreampro_REVENGE!]

GOOD! they better keep this exclusive, and it better make use and rince an entire BD Disc with crazy CGI style graphics, AND IT BETTER STAY EXCLUSIVE, cus if its not AM GONNA GO OVER THERE!! to their cosey little japanese hide out !!!!AND KICK THE SH1T OUT OF THEM!!!!!!

[KrimsonKody]

S/E runs over here...SONY follows,
S/E runs over there...SONY questions...,
Why can't we just say F*@K SONY and look to other IP's.

I mean, there was a day when there wasn't that much variety. But there are so many companies who deserves (us) gamers attention.

Yeah...I love S/E, conditionally. I've been playing FFXII recently ( I started, stopped, started again, quit for a few months-during the MGS4/GTA4 wave, and now addicted again).

And as I've been playing I realized that in this day and age, with SOOO much variety, S/E BETTER DELIVER- in all aspects ( And I don't mean the "S/E gives you 1000+HR's of playtime and 1 new aeon/creature-like helper" kinda delivery...

[KrimsonKody]

@JUUKEN, I must say that KH1 and 2 are two of the best last-gens you can possibly enjoy now ( and Odin Sphere, wow). People either stole or returned my copies utterly damaged, so now I'm looking for the originals again ( all my GameStops got greatest hits or damaged box-art copies).

@REVENGE, I'll join you.

We can use a "fusion" combo attack (MUA:2),

You kick them into me,
while I'm holding a hot RRoD'ed 360,
with a copy of IU in it...

[darkstar]

Some games just dont feel right on the xbox, and this would be one of them.

[smurfie4]

If nomura is directing this one like he did with KH1&2 it will be exclusive.

[gersh]

I wouldn't find this surprising at all, considering the other Kingdom Hearts were for the PS2.

[Skyreno]

im going to say again that nomura is PS3 fanboy so he will never put his games to crappy xbox360 so there , FF13Versus is coming ps3 and kingdom heart 3 exclusive

[DFresh]

Nomura really has his hands full making 3 exclusive games for the PS3.
First FFXIII Versus, second One Goal Spirit, and third Kingdom Hearts III.
Damn this man might just save the RPG Genre w/ the way he's going considering the 360 is f***ing it all up.
Infinite Discovery (5/10)
Tales of Vesperia (7.1/10)
Too Human (5.5/10)
Eterna Sonata (7/10)
etc.
Nomura might just save RPGs from dying this gen.

PS3 RPGs are really the bread and butter of Japan.
Disgea 3 (9/10)
Valkryia Chronicles (8.5/10)

[B-Rein]

Well Folklore is kind of an rpg, IGN gave that 9/10 XD

[Skyreno]

bubbles for you ^^

[chitown]

i would fukin buy 3 ps3s just to play this game. awesome news. playstation is where kingdom hearts should be. sweeeeeetttttt

[BombShop]

Omg..Never have I seen so many sony fanboys. You can have your disney game. I'll have fun playing the final fantasy game on my 360 that doesn't have disney characters.

[gersh]

Oh, you mean the Final Fantasy game that you should be so grateful to have?
The one that was going to be exclusive for the PS3?

[Username]

why did they put a Birth by Sleep scan on an article for KH3? makes no sense, terra aqua and ven wont be in KH3...?