Topic: Square-enix: No DX11 = No KH3 on WiiU. Sonic Boom Devs: Here's the game running on DX11!

Square-Enix is now a confirmed dirty liar. The main reason Kingdom Hearts 3 isn't coming to WiiU is due to the "lack of DX11"

http://playeressence.com/final-fantasy-15-and-kingdom-hearts-...

But Sonic Boom runs on DX11 and uses the CryEngine 3!

http://www.sonicstadium.org/2014/04/very-high-res-off-screen-...

I seriously think square-enix has some kind of grudge against nintendo. I mean why lie about it?

third parties just don't want to put their games on the Wii U. Regardless of their reasons, at the end of the day we can't do much about it.

Wasn't this assumed pretty much immediately?

3rd Partys will use whatever excuse not to release their game on a Nintendo console, because its not the "cool thing to do".
Youre not cool if you dont release games on the new and shiny next gen "watercoolers".
And if you would ask the "Fan"base around here, they would say that its actually the right way, since the WiiU is SUCH a big failure.
Do you know whats one of the most ironic things going on at the moment ? People are craving, begging, whining about the lack of N64 / GC games on the WIiUs VC service.
You know, the N64 / GC, two consoles considered huge failures also.... People want it so badly.

The entire gaming scene, devs, publishers and gamers alike, is completely out of its mind.
It doesnt matter that the games the WiiU offers are all, without exception, first class tites. No, its much more important that it misses all the 3rd party shovelware, like the half year release of assassins creed, or the weekly call of duty etc.
And its all Nintendos fault. Its not the idiotic behaviour of 3rd party devs and publishers, the blind and unreasonable behaviour of the gamer crowd feeding the shady schmemes of said devs (for example: everyone was against always online DRM, but instead of protesting, games like Diablo 3 and Sim City sold like hot buns).
No, its solely Nintendos own doing...

Third parties also said just about any old thing they wanted about Wii U in 2013 informed or not. A tough year for Wii U apologists.

Will buy for PS4.
Sucks for Nintendo and Wii U owners like myself, but beggar cant be choosers.

Well, that's Square Enix for you. All talk, no action. Instead of licensing DX11 and putting it on the disc to run it, they use it as an excuse to save money - despite the extreme success chances for Kingdom Hearts on WiiU.
As @Einherjar said, dev's just do so for their lousy image. Releasing on the WiiU is considered stupid, and although it wouldn't hurt anyone to do so, fans would take it as an insult to their glorified mess of a game series.

Buuut, I don't really care about this particular case. I couldn't care less about Kingdom Hearts, and Square Enix lost me ever since FFX.

well Sega does what Square-Enix don't and for Nintendo on top of that....
gamers from the old times must be thinking about how the world has turned upside down in some things

I think it would have a better chance to sell more on the U tbh. Disney and Nintendo go well together. Rayman for a while sold better on the U and that's not Disney related! I don't think the Ps4 is the right target audience right now as only the more serious call of dudy fans own it.

The difference between KH3 and Sonic Boom is that one is a multiplatform title and the other is a Wii U exclusive. Sonic Boom may be running on DX11, but that doesn't mean that any DX11 game can magically run on the Wii U. A Wii U port of KH3 would probably be costly, take longer than PS4 and Xbone ports and probably not run as well as the two other versions.

yes people are just saying the "no DX11" excuse is invalid, what you pointed out isn't wrong but also not what squeenix said.
also, no way I'd lose a chance to use the Sega does joke.

And what if KH3 ends up turning into a steaming pile of diarrhea turds on PS4... There is a rather high chance of that happening too

Odds are they just don't see it profitable. If they did, they would make it. They don't see it profitable and so they tell us it's because of technical limitations.

This was a great way to start the thread.

"No KH3 on the WiiU"

And nothing of value was lost.

I've thought for years it would be cool if Nintendo could team up with SE again like they did for Mario RPG, and create a Kingdom Hearts type game that has you instead visiting Nintendo worlds.

To you maybe but to others KH is an awesome series.

I've always found it weird that KH wasn't a Nintendo game to begin with. I guess PS is where most of the fans of the PS1/PS2 era FF games are, but it's just always seemed more like a franchise tailor-made for Nintendo's core fan base.

I still think that KH 1.5 and 2.5 would find a decent audience on Wii U.

They have to use excuses on the fly because they cannot openly said that its not coming the Wii U because they think of the game as a next gen title and they don't think of the Wii U as a next gen console

Ironically, that's just an image thing. Despite being shifted from PS3 to PS4, the game itself doesn't even have 4k visuals. And while some may say that 4k isn't the only thing about next-gen, it's still the only argument for it, yet not a single PS4/XBone game even tried to go beyond 1080p with upscaling.