Topic: Kingdom Hearts 3 now using Unreal Engine 4...

Remember a while back when KH3 was confirmed only for PS4 and Xbone, and we were all desperately pushing to have Square Enix support a Wii U version of Kingdom Hearts 3? Some of us raised a valid point, being that the Wii U had already proven capable of running Directx11--the technology that KH3 was said to have been using--and also that Nomura had stated that any console that could run the Directx11 technology would be supported with KH3. Most of us concluded that the real reason for no KH3 support on Wii U was due to the lack of a profitable install base (even though the Xbone was, and still is, behind the Wii U in that regard).

But now, it has been revealed that Kingdom Hearts 3 is being made with Unreal Engine 4... So, I guess those arguments aren't valid anymore...

http://kotaku.com/kingdom-hearts-iii-is-being-made-with-unrea...

Yeah, I saw that. I was a little disappointed, but I really shouldn't be.

Pretty sure Wii U could handle Unreal 4, just it may not be compatible out of the box.

Í'm honestly more confused on why they finally gave up the main Kingdom Hearts games being exclusive to Playstation when they refuse to release the first 2 games on anything else (unless I'm mistaken?)

BECAUSE JUST LIKE WITH HIDEO KOJIMA AND METAL GEAR SOLID.... SQUARE ENIX AND KOJIMA STILL SEES THEIR FRANCHISES (MGS and Kingdom Hearts) AS SONY EXCLUSIVES EVEN THOUGH THEY AREN'T ANYMORE. Its pretty messed up that the Xbox One isn't even getting the Kingdom Hearts remastered games. Just wow.

Square-enix is sort of incompetent, hell look how they handled sleeping dogs and Dues Ex.

Even if the Wii U can't handle Unreal Engin 4, Square-Enix can use their Shinra Technology that they were talking about to have KH3 on the Wii U as a Cloud game.

Square Enix is quite incompetent, that's for sure

It doesn't really change much. Unreal Engine must be an easier engine to work with, I guess.

My experience with those two has been quite good. Just the Japanese part I have issues with not the old Eidos part.

This move sure makes all of their work on proprietary engines look pretty dumb now. Even morso that its taken Sqaure enix 10 year and two engines and they still don't have a streamlined work flow. Meanwhile EA is down to only having two engines (Ignite for sports and Frostbite for everything else.). and Capcom uses MT framework for everything.

I also agree that the Wii U Deus Ex situation was the worst thing but the initial releases of both games were considered really good releases all around so I'm confused.

Mmmmm, I'd bet Kingdom Hearts would sell more on the Wii U than the Xbox.

I'd likely agree. I mean, a lot of KH spinoff games were on GBA/DS.

Definitely. I'd say it'd be worth it for SE to release KH 1.5 and 2.5 on the U to test the waters.

The porting itself would cost more than it would make. Porting it to PS3 with a huge installbase was both cheaper and could make potentially a lot more money. Even if they did it would probably kill any chance of any KH game ever coming to the Wii U again.

So it'll be more likely to get finished within a reasonable timeframe. Hurray.

Like 2016-2017?

Probably now that the directors of FF15 have shifted and they can finally get the game into high gear. I'd still say 2017 is more likely, though.

I thought I heard Epic was surprised with what a person from Retro Studios showed them in regards to an in-game engine thing with the WiiU in regards to the system able to run unreal engine 4. I might've been remembering it wrong or it could've been just a rumor.