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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[osaka35]

I get your frustration with it, but this is the only way one can feasibly play the likes of Kingdom Hearts 3 on the underpowered Switch, it's either a cloud version of the game for the system, or no version for the system at all.

I can understand, but....yes. I would much rather just not have an inferior "product", but mainly because of how it is presented and "sold". I fear it sets expectations this behaviour is acceptable for companies.

To put it better: If they're going to sell a service and not a game, then they need to present and sell it as a service. As is, it is misleading at best, anti-consumer at worst.

 

[the_randomizer]

Do they think we are stupid enough to buy this collection?

Well, they did release FF games on PC but not consoles, so, apparently

 

[Wolfy]

I shall not buy into cloud streaming, mostly for the fact that the compression makes games look god awful when I was play-testing Google's stuff before Stadia was a thing.

 

[nWo]

Sadly, here in my country cloud gaming is just a dream. The internet is so dang slow that it is impossible to run a game. Even if it were possible, I dislike cloud gaming. I think it really sucks.

 

[AkiraKurusu]

I own all three on PS4, and the only game I've ever finished was 2.
I liked the Drive Forms; those were fun. Never could manage to beat the Org 13 rematches in that white challenge room, though.
I did start 1 and 3, but eeeeh, 1's Tarzan vine-swinging was so poorly coded it's , and 3 just didn't hold my interest.

 

[MrSandstorm]

Apart from the obvious ownership and long-term availability issues, it just feels like a bad idea with even worse execution. Will it truly be a one-time purchase or will they come up with some sort of recurring fee? Because maintaining servers for this will be a recurring cost. Also, imagine buying this and not being able to play on launch because the servers are overloaded, or having to wait in queue to access a single-player title.

As if wanting to "release" (in quotes because I personally don't see this as an actual release) the game on a platform without actually porting it to that platform wasn't greedy enough by itself, coming up with a scheme that may very well end up biting their own asses just sounds incredibly out of touch. Guess that's what the gaming industry looks like these days...

 

[AkiraKurusu]

Apart from the obvious ownership and long-term availability issues, it just feels like a bad idea with even worse execution. Will it truly be a one-time purchase or will they come up with some sort of recurring fee? Because maintaining servers for this will be a recurring cost. Also, imagine buying this and not being able to play on launch because the servers are overloaded, or having to wait in queue to access a single-player title.

As if wanting to "release" (in quotes because I personally don't see this as an actual release) the game on a platform without actually porting it to that platform wasn't greedy enough by itself, coming up with a scheme that may very well end up biting their own asses just sounds incredibly out of touch. Guess that's what the gaming industry looks like these days...

I fully agree with you; I just can't help but feel sad about that truth.

 

[Dr_Faustus]

am I the only person who doesn't even remotely like and care about this series?

Nah, there is plenty of us out there. The only thing I ever cared about it was the jokes I used to make about KH3 never coming out but instead they kept making remakes of the previous games.

 

[DuoForce]

They seriously couldn't spend a bit more time to port the first 2 over natively? What a fucking joke.

 

[Moon164]

Just imagine facing Sephiroth with Input Lag.

 

[shadow1w2]

Kingdom Hearts finally makes it, but at what cost....

They coulda made a killing releasing each game on their own one at a time but I guess the easy route covers the whole thing.
Wonder how long the servers will last.

 

[spotanjo3]

Cloud Streaming ?! Again ? What a joke! Jeez!

 

[Ampersound]

I thought it was only cloud streaming for KH3.
Well that sucks. How are you supposed to play them on the go then? What a bad decision.

 

[MultiKoopa]

oh come ON

what an absolute joke, everything outside of 0.2 and 3 would run perfectly on Switch :\

 

[M7L7NK7]

Not buying a cop out version

Would you of honesty bought it really

 

[Guggimon]

I'm happy with the smash announcement but this is just BS Why Cloud??? I really want to get into kingdom hearts, but looks like i'll pass this one

 

[SG854]

This is thrbfutire ofb gaming

 

[Kolina2901]

How are you supposed to play them on the go then? What a bad decision.

"You don't, do you not have good internet?" - Probably Square Enix

 

[Lightyose]

You know what is sad, if they see this sells "bad" they might go like: "Oh, it's not profitable on a Nintendo console."

NO. It's not so profitable because not everyone has access to stable internet connection, a console and buying a license to play the game, instead of actually porting it. Unless they plan to port them to the Next Generation Nintendo system, I see no reasonable positive results.

And I'm a Kingdom Hearts player. I have played and am caught up in the story with Kingdom Hearts, I enjoy the games, but this treatment does not bring joy.

Everything else in the Smash presentation was amazing though!

 

[MrSandstorm]

How are you supposed to play them on the go then? What a bad decision.

Can't wait for their official 4G cloud gaming dongle, and of course, the official USB hub to go with that since there's only one port. Think how beautiful and practical the Switch will look with those attached!

Maybe that's how they're planning to make up for server costs, selling the mobile data you'll need to keep your portable console, you know, portable.