Announced today alongside the final character reveal for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was that Kingdom Hearts is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Three titles will be available, letting you catch up on all the series lore: Kingdom Hearts I.5+II.5 ReMIX, Kingdom Hearts II.8, and Kingdom Hearts III. These games will utilize cloud streaming to be playable on the Switch, rather than be straight up ports to the console. No release date was given.

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[Kioku]

What an absolute joke.

 

[Scarlet]

Man I really think cloud gaming could take off on the Switch if Nintendo had a unified platform for it. Nintendo Cloud Arcade or something, where you could buy universal credits to be used on any game, in oppose to buying time to play one specific game.

I'd actually be really interested in something like that.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Damnit Cloud, just go play with Sephiroth without ruining things ffs.

 

[OkazakiTheOtaku]

Good luck to all the people buying a Switch OLED in a couple days. Your console isn't even seen as worth getting real PS2 and PSP ports before it's even out.

 

[KingVamp]

I'm glad it is here, but the collections could have surely been on the Switch itself.

 

[DaniPoo]

I can understand cloud streaming for KH3, but for the others? I'm sure the Switch could run them just fine.
Why? ..

 

[DaRk_ViVi]

Don't really care about 1.5/2.5/2.8, but would love to test KH3 on the cloud porting on Switch, if it runs fine I'm gonna buy it.

 

[CoolMe]

Lazy Nintendo, instead of porting I.5+II.5 ReMIX -because those should run fine on the Switch- we're getting this Cloud Streaming BS instead.. smh

 

[Kioku]

Lazy Nintendo, instead of porting I.5+II.5 ReMIX -because those should run fine on the Switch- we're getting this Cloud Streaming BS instead.. smh

I dont see how Nintendo is to blame here..

 

[Nerdtendo]

Lazy Nintendo, instead of porting I.5+II.5 ReMIX -because those should run fine on the Switch- we're getting this Cloud Streaming BS instead.. smh

It's not Nintendo in this case. It's Nomura.

 

[LanHikariDS]

I thought only KH3 was going to be run through cloud streaming, not the whole collection The reveal was pretty vague, though

EDIT: Only three hours later I've just now seen the fine print

 

[Plazorn]

When you could get it on PS4 for $10

 

[tech3475]

Lazy Nintendo, instead of porting I.5+II.5 ReMIX -because those should run fine on the Switch- we're getting this Cloud Streaming BS instead.. smh

It's probably SE's decision more than Nintendo.

Although I do think it seems pointless on the Switch, since it limits where you can actually play it and one of the reasons I got the Switch was to AVOID streaming.

I'd rather buy the games at full price from EGS and play them on the Steam Deck than this version.

Edit:

I know it's not completely pointless, e.g. if you only have a Switch and only play at home, but being able to 'play anywhere' for at least SP games was always a selling point for me of the Switch.

 

[WG481]

Cloud Streaming would be a lot better if
1. Internet was reliable where I live
2. Nintendo has good netcode

 

[LeyendaV]

This is more of a Square-Enix thing than Nintendo's.

In my personal case, I'm not into stream based games or game services, and won't be till they become 100% reliable, which may or may not happen during my life span
But it's obvious that companies realized the success of the Switch would actually be great to keep launching "current" games, they just want a quick, efficient way to earn easy money without the need of taking the time and making the investment for develop a dedicated version.
In the case of SE (more the "Square" than the "Enix"), we've seen the FF games on Switch being ports of either old versions or mobile versions, with the pinnacle of this being the port of FF XV we got.
And well, for cloud gaming the possibility is there, they just took it.

 

[godreborn]

as much as I'd like to play these games, I won't pay for a game that's going to be streamed, if that's what they have in mind.

 

[chrisrlink]

oh no the end of piracy as we know it lol jk

 

[Hayato213]

Well being cloud and Tetsuya Nomura games that is a big no no.

 

[osaka35]

so not "for sale", really. Just "rent for a while with heavy drm". not my cup of tea at all. I hope this trend of leasing games without the ability to purchase crashes and burns.