Kingdom Hearts series could land on Wii

knox - 136 days 16 hours ago

same, i think it could happen, but maybe not kingdom hearts 3.....maybe it would be a spinoff or something. still, yep, it could happen.

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shocky16 - 136 days 16 hours ago

Wii audience <3 Disney.

It would probably sell a lot too guaranteed.

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SpoonyRedMage - 136 days 15 hours ago

Yes, in a business sense it would be a good move because of the fact it's Disney but it'd annoy quite a bit of the userbase.

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Smacktard - 136 days 15 hours ago

Good. The userbase should get off its stupid high horse.

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gintoki777 - 136 days 15 hours ago

i dont mind if we gets games for some reason because i respect nintendo more than microsoft
now if xbox 360 were to get kingdom hearts people would going crazy

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heroicjanitor - 136 days 15 hours ago

So much more can be done with the ps3.

Unless there was a wii and a ps3 version, then I wouldn't mind.

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gaffyh - 136 days 15 hours ago

It makes sense for the game to come to Wii, not so much on the 360. In fact I've been expecting the game to be Wii exclusive or at least Multiplat, it would surprise me if the game is exclusive to PS3 or 360 now.

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Blaze929 - 136 days 14 hours ago

well I think its no brainier that Kingdom Hearts will definitely come to the Wii. I'd be disappointed though becuase just like the Nintendo DS game, I won't be able to play it. Big fan of the series, just not a fan of the DS or Wii.

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scissor_runner - 136 days 13 hours ago

I just heard from same one that sony is saying they did a survey and found that most PS3 owners where 18-35 years old. Now who is suppose to buy kingdom hearts out of that group? I also know lots of gamers on the HD console hate cartoony looking games just by looking at the sales of such games.

So I don't really see why they would get mad? Plus with the PS3 being so expensive I don't see too many kids or girls buying it. I know this is the first game that my girl friend liked that was an RPG. I mean the girls that bough wii fit will buy this game also. The guys who actualy like console games will get this also and the guys who just want uncharted will ignore it.

So HD owners shouldn't get to mad plus we have a nice line up of games coming out like
fragile
Tales from namco
crystal bearers
monster hunter
the next zelda
dragon quest X
Also the new project from square! http://gonintendo.com/views... Project V

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Smacktard - 136 days 13 hours ago

This is too hilarious. Whenever a major series hits the Wii instead of the 360 or the PS3, 360 and PS3 owners kick up a fuss, saying how the series is dead or act jealous and call the Wii crap or something. The worst is "oh man that's awful I hate the Wii." Why would you hate a console that's getting good games? I can understand disliking a console for its lack of games, but don't most, y'know, GAMERS enjoy consoles with games? It's really stupid to hate a console because of what it is, does, or looks like. Let's face it, all three consoles this gen have their problems. They all have their downsides. Now can we just play games?

Instead of whining, couldn't people just, y'know, buy the console that's getting these major exclusives?

It happened with Monster Hunter 3, it happened with Dragon Quest X, and the same thing would happen with Kingdom Hearts.

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Kigmal - 136 days 12 hours ago

Let's see for someone like me who has Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 on PS2, I'll be severely pissed because then I can kiss my collection goodbye. This better come to PS3 god damn it.

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Smacktard - 136 days 12 hours ago

Yeah man, that was how I felt when FF7 went to the Playstation.

herp durp

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MisterNiwa - 136 days 11 hours ago

Considering this...

Kingdom Hearts PS2
Kingdom Hearts Final Mix PS2
Kingdom Hearts 2 PS2
Kingdom Hearts Final Mix 2 PS2
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep PSP

Kingdom Hearts could land on PS3. :O

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The Great Melon - 136 days 11 hours ago

It better come to the ps3 as a multi or exclusive. I want to see what they can do on the hd consoles. Enjoyed the first two, but I am ready for an upgrade just like God of War.

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97gsx - 136 days 10 hours ago

Well considering square-enix would save tons of development money by making a wii game and we haven't heard about Kingdom hearts 3 since god knows how long. Looks like square-enix is ready to dump Sony. Sony needs to buy a majority in square-enix now!! Otherwise I don't see them winning japan without square-enix. Crap I want my Final fantasy 7 sequel.

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Jaces - 136 days 1 hour ago

Coming from someone who's never played Kingdom Hearts....real nice.

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UltimateIdiot911 - 135 days 20 hours ago

It would be a bad idea for SE as I'm pretty sure many who enjoyed the Kingdom Heart series have a PS3 or likely to purchase a PS3. Then again, this won't the first time SE made bad choices. I enjoyed the Kingdom Heart series a lot and been dying for Birth by Sleep but not enough to buy a Wii for KH3.

We probably won't hear anything about KH3 till Birth by Sleep is done which probably won't be done till after FF Vs. XIII.

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BabyStomper5000 - 135 days 18 hours ago

This is stupid. Every Kingdom Hearts game has been exclusive to one console or another. Who says we can't have one for both systems? Geez.

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thesummerofgeorge - 135 days 16 hours ago

Let's NOT ruin the fvckin game!

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Menchi - 136 days 15 hours ago

Try playing it. You'll understand better than.

As for KH on Wii? As long as it's not a main entry in the series, then, sure.

Personally, I think they should stick with either PS2 or PS3. Preferably PS3, just to take advantage of the hardware, which Nomura apparently loves doing.

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The Great Melon - 136 days 11 hours ago

Knowing that Nomura is behind the game, I am not so worried about the possibility of it going to the Wii.

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UltimateIdiot911 - 135 days 19 hours ago

Agreed. Even if he puts it on the Wii, there is a chance that it will end up on the Playstation platform like Chain of Memories.

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wizzle52 - 136 days 14 hours ago

The Kingdom Hearts Series sell best in Japan, hence why all the previous games come out in Japan first as the PS3 sells better there. Somehow though i doubt this will be an exclusive, i mean what can be done on the PS3 that makes it more enjoyable apart from the graphics? Leave the gameplay the same, give us another mindblowing story :). I think it would be PS3 and Wii i cant see it coming out to 360 because one of the older games would have been ported by now.

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Pekka - 136 days 10 hours ago

Kingdom Hearts 1 sold 3.5 million in USA and just 1.2 million in Japan. With Kingdom Hearts figures are 2 million in USA and just over 1 million in Japan. So Kingdom Hearts is actually much bigger in USA than it is in Japan. It is only released first in Japan because it is developed there.

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UltimateIdiot911 - 135 days 19 hours ago

I can see it being a PS3 exclusive mainly because Noruma is a PS fanboy. Aside from that, it's hard to compare last gen to this gen since the PS2 dominated. From what I've personally witnessed, many PS2 owners switched to PS3 or willing to purchase the PS3 over the 360.

So while it may have done well in the NA last gen, the 360 JRPG sale definitely indicates that many of the JRPG fans on the 360 are closer to nonexistent than to 2 million. I could be wrong but I think it's best to wait for FFXIII to better determine that.

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The Great Melon - 136 days 11 hours ago

Its one thing if it game out on the 360 and the ps3, but releasing it on the Wii and the PS3 is in my opinion a bad decision. Yes they may make money, but the quality of the games will suffer greatly due to the differences in the platforms. It will end up like those movie games where they release a game on every system. They need to make it for only one system, not both.

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knox - 136 days 8 hours ago

who said it would be an exclusive? we dont know anything yet

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Menchi - 136 days 14 hours ago

Why? Because it has Disney characters?

No, I'm sorry, but I disagree. The Wii has shown the audience doesn't appreciate core gaming experiences.

Believe it or not, Kingdom Hearts wasn't a casual title, it was actually a very respectable Action RPG, and definitely aimed at the core market, even with the Disney characters.

I own a Wii, and consistently purchase the core offerings, but seriously, it's obvious that for the most part, a lot of the Wii's audience simply aren't interested in titles that cater to the core.

I think it belongs on either PS2, or at the very least, multi platform on PS3 and 360.

Those systems have a strong core following, and with the latter, they'd have a lot of technical power to push the game forward, considering Action RPGs benefit greatly from increased power.

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callahan09 - 136 days 14 hours ago

Yeah, well a lot of the Wii's audience are children and women, and I have a suspicion that this audience has a lot of interest in Disney franchises. They may not be interested in core RPG experiences like Final Fantasy or Tales of ... games but that's because they aren't familiar with the concepts, the franchises, etc. If you throw in something they have a vested interested in, like the Disney characters, a lot of them will check it out and discover that they can enjoy that core gameplay experience. I never said that Kingdom Hearts was not a core gameplay experience. A lot of Wii owners are not interested in core games because of their subject matter and the fact that they're not familiar with the concepts underlying the gameplay, so they stick with the casual experiences. But if you introduce them to a core game with an incentive to be interested, like their beloved Disney characters, they'll check it out and discover that Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Wii Fit aren't the only ways they can enjoy their Wii.

And a lot of people here on this site forget that a lot of core gamers DO own a Wii. There's really nothing wrong with putting Kingdom Hearts on Wii instead of the PS3 / 360.

"Core gamers" seem to have a lot of bias against the Wii, but if I was Square-Enix the first console I would look at if I was going to be starting a new Kingdom Hearts would be the Wii. The core will find your game their, and the Disney license would be put to great use with the audience on the Wii.

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phantomexe - 136 days 14 hours ago

i have played it and you call it core with mickey mouse? i'm sorry thats just funny.If the wii is nothing but casual then this game fits that.

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SpoonyRedMage - 136 days 13 hours ago

Callahan have a bubble, you pretty much covered it all with your second comment.

What a lot of people don't realise about the Wii as well is that developers are now looking to get a hold of the mature market on the console. Mature games may not have not have sold as well as on the PS360 but that makes publishers want to be the first to do that which is why we're still seeing mature titles coming out for the Wii(as well as low dev costs and other stuff).

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scissor_runner - 136 days 13 hours ago

phantomexe I'm with you I could not play thought this game because other games took me away from it but I enjoyed watching my girl friend play through it. I can not stand any thing disney yet I have to give those guys props for what they do. It is actually a great game game play wise also.

I understand the disney bias though LOL. I guess it would not be as bad if all of their movies didn't have pointless songs in them.

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The Great Melon - 136 days 11 hours ago

Many might disregard the Kingdom Hearts franchise because of its Disney roots, but it is those roots that make these games so enjoyable along with the great gameplay. Everyone has seen many of those movies sometime in their lives and it is really cool to see how they are able to recreate each along with infusing many popular characters from the Final Fantasy series into them. Because there are already several games from this series out, people know the quality of these games are really good whether they will be on the Wii, PS3, or 360.

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BlackTar187 - 136 days 5 hours ago

I sayin that because maybe you cant get into disney charcters and such not because ohhhh your 2 mature its becasue maybe your not old enough to apprciate them. Maybe most of those movies were before yourtime but it seems like this is a constant trend on N4g that the yougster consistenly downplay something ala Ghostbuster etc becasue your not old enouigh to fully apprciate thses things. See GB was incrediable to me and the graphic BS you guys pulled didnt take anything away but some how it does for you which is sad. people who wanted GB wnated it for the story the nostalgia etc same thing here we grew up with this stuff maybe more closely then your pokeman digimon era. dont knock are game or think you have any idea waht ps3 people want. Someone said it there was a poll out there and ps3 was 18-35 wow in what alot of you dont see is KINGDOM HEARST storylines take place during those people kids ages and why it was so well recieved it was not becasue of disney or square it was a great story and elements that us older fans have been wishing for. If i ranted i apolgize and if im not talking about you sorry

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KILLA J - 136 days 15 hours ago

you are so right

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Arius Dion - 136 days 15 hours ago

We all know how happy Free Radical is with Haze and Factor 5 with Lair..oh wait. Some of these posts are so pathetic its funny. So the game will suckif it is on the Wii but be the second coming if it's on the PS3? What happened to gamers following the games and not the consoles themselves? You two must be a bunch of emo "casual gamers" Oh the horror, the horror!

Lets see, the Wii has half of this gens entire console installed base, lower dev costs..Hmmm lets see where does putting Kingdom Hearts make the most sense?

And for ppl hoping for a "spinoff" And not the main game, yeah, tell that to DQX and MH3. I'm almost certain this game will be announced for Wii probably at TGS or Nintendo's OCtober Show. Gotta recoup the losses they've accumulated with the other platforms.

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mastiffchild - 136 days 14 hours ago

Arius mate! Yopu're being just as bad with your misinformation. Discount Haze, for a start, it failiong had NOTHING to do with PS3 or even dev costs but politics which left it a PS3 exclusive and then without middleware for physics and other things which were then rushed through in-hoise. Facvt is the game was better a year before release.

As for Lair-yes, it flopped but only because of the overamnitious reliance on Sixaxis-had another control scheme been available(which the devs really should have done and it's THEIR fault and noone elses that they didn't)it would have been pretty good.

Plus LOADS of devs/pubs say PS3 or 360 are their leading money makers and as for third parties making cash with good core games on the Wii? Madworld and HotD Overkill , among others, say hi! MH3 is even a bit of a risk given it'll be pay to play online and Wii Connect hasn't shone as of yet which has left Capcom with lots of work to do themselves-though with the Japanese fanbase and cash thrown at the game it should be ok.

Thing is KH3 would do very well on either PS3 OR Wii, though obviously would look way better on Sony's platform so I don't really care which it lands on even if I do feel it might sell better on PS3 given recent salkes for core third party games on Wii. Saying that it would sell ok on 360 in the US and be a big coup for MS(we'll have to see though as if Nomura's in charge MS seems less likely)as well!

So long as the game comes and it's good we really shouldn't care I guess but there's reasons in both directions why it should/shouldn't be on a particular console.

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Ashriel - 136 days 13 hours ago

Arius Dion:

Well, for Kingdom Hearts, I'm hoping for something good, instead of something cheap ;)

Let's see, the Wii is the weakest console this generation, not much room for improvement, install base that consist mostly in casual gamers, Hmmm lets see where does putting Kingdom Hearts make the least sense?

EDIT: Well, I'm not just talking about graphics, there's a lot of things a developer can do with a more powerful hardware, is that bad? why do you want game to not go foward? just for the sake of money? GTA 4 was definnitively better than 3(people keep comparing it to San Andreas .-. GTA4 is a sequel to GTA3), DMC4 and RE5 weren't made by the same guys who made the other games. Do you really think the hardware makes the games bad?

And third parties just don't sell well on wii, no matter how much you try to deny it.

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Arius Dion - 136 days 13 hours ago

Please spare me that ill fated logic. No company has gone ut of business due to a Wii game flopping. Wii sells the most third party software inspite of the fact that it has largely missed out on the big third party franchises. You wanna talk risk, as Factor 5 how that risk panned out.

As for biggest money makers, Activision sees most console profits from the Wii. EA shifted support to the Wii because of games that underperformed, you know like dead space, for one. Take two despite the good sales of GTA4 was still seeing the bleeding.

HD consoles give higher revenue but not ROI. Why do you think activision is considering dropping support for Sony? Why are HD consoles lacking exclusives?

MH3 was a risk on PS3 which is why it isn't there anymore. Simple as that. Kingdom Hearts will follow suit with DQX. Square is in need of profts right now, because the horse they bet heavily on is nearly 3 yrs old and barely outsold the Gamecube.

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@Ash: What? Casual gamers? You mean the same casual gamers that made KH on the PS2 so popular? Since when do graphics make a game better? Prettier? Fine, but who cares about pretty? Was RE5 better than RE4? No, but it sure was prettier. Was Twilight Princess better than OoT? No but it sure was prettier. GTAIV? DMC4? SF4? The list goes on and on. But keep living in your little world where you like to play interactive movies instead of games. Your last sentence is not based on facts whatsover. Wii has more third party platinum sellers than PS3 FACT. Wii versions of Guitar Hero Sell better than HD consoles, FACT. Shaun White, Tiger Woods, these games sold more than on HD consoles. Shaun White out sold both HD versions combined. Games progressing is more than about making them prettier, I'm all for advancing in gaming Wii is advancing gaming, look at M$ and Sony struggle to come up with an answer for Wii's motion controls..which I bet you are now all of a sudden excited for. But hey, keep fighting the good fight and keeping those dumb casual gamers off of your system of choice, ironically it is that sort of behavior that is killing the HD consoles.

@Cheese: Thanks, but be prepared to have multiple disagrees now lol.

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Cheeseknight28 - 136 days 13 hours ago

I'm glad someone on this site has common sense, rather than some of the people here who froth at the mouth from anything Sony tells them.

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scissor_runner - 136 days 13 hours ago

OK first of all who buys more disney stuff Gear of war owners , killzone 2 owners, or COD owners. Hmmmmm and you all said the wii is owned by a bunch of soccer moms LOL. I think soccer moms would eat kingdom heart up on the Wii. Motion controls and disney and they don't have the share their system with dad who is afriad they will break his $600 toy.

Here you are a bunch of hardcore gamers crying for kingdom heart yet the very arguments that define your systems of choice keep you from getting the games you want.

I told you guys before you where being too PC gamer like and now it's going to bite you in the A$$. Hey but it is still possible they would make it for the HD console it all depends on what the artist and the designers want to do and what they can get away with.

Also it does not help that many HD gamers actually put FF13 down regularly.

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mastiffchild - 136 days 12 hours ago

Jeesus, "ill fated logic"? What nonsense! You're being as blind to the facts as those you wished to castugate. BTW, I don't mind at all where KH ends up-I just don't see what Wii controls will actually add to the gameplay here and as a result I'd like to have the best looking game I can-god I'm so blinded by Sony I'm sure! I even said it makes sense, business wise, for MS to take an interest in KH3.

FRD didn't go bust because of Sony or PS3 just get your head round that-they were just unfortunate and the dropping of the 360 version and subsequent moving of all sorts opf goalposts is what scuppered them and the game. Lair-yes, Sony DID push for a Sixaxis showcase but F5 SHOULD'NT have put their eggs in one basket and having preferred playing Lair by Remote Play I truly believe a full set of well considered "normal" controls would have saved the game from much of it's scalding.

Comes to something when you actively try to show people that there's arguments both ways that I'm the one accused of being one eyed. I'm a pretty big Wii sympathiser as it goes(just think that Nintendo's approach to third parties stinks-they need more demos and promotion on the Shoping and Nintendo Channels at least, imo, then fewer would sell so poorly or, like WaW have to rely on word of mouth)but just because the actual reasons behind Haze and Lair failing, and their devs, has little to nothing whatsoever to do with Sony don't bite me for telling you.

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Arius Dion - 136 days 12 hours ago

Tell me where my statements veer off into things that are untrue. Wii doesn't sell more third party software than PS3? MH3 didn't leave PS3 because of DEv costs and lack of an installed base?

Sometimes I am facetious and very sarcastic when dealing with some of the backwards logic that is rampant on this Sony dominated site. I've seen many of your comments and I do not feel you fall into this category, though I do have to call you out when I don't think what you post is on point, which I'd imagine you'd feel compelled to do when you see my comments in that way.

I'm using Haze in the same way people like to use NMH or Madworld, I can easily bring up The God Father 2, or more recently Bionic Commando to do the same thing. Flops are NOT exclusive to Wii, that is the only point I'm trying to illustrate. Even the PS2 had flops. And yes, flops on the PS3 are NOT the PS3's fault, but why then are flops on the Wii all of a sudden Wii's fault? Or blamed on "the demographics?" This is a retorical questin of course.

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Gambeno - 136 days 9 hours ago

thought it was a square enix game that incorporated ip's from both the disney franchises and the final fantasy franchises.

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knox - 136 days 8 hours ago

im not so sure itd be a wii exclusive

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Ashriel - 136 days 6 hours ago

yeaaaah, but Nomura is in charge of making it, his opinion will be heard and if he doesn't want to make Kingdom Hearts 3 for the Wii he won't and the game will suck. xD nah, I'm not sure if it works that way.

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