The Highly Anticipated Game Is Coming Out Early Next Year
Kingdom Hearts III received a specific release date last week but it was apparent that that Square Enix had delayed it from its previous late 2018 release. Recently, the game’s director, Tetsuya Nomura, explained why it had been delayed to release in early 2019 instead.
According to a translated interview, Nomura told Famitsu magazine that Kingdom Hearts III was delayed in order for it to have a nearly simultaneous worldwide release. Nomura also said that he’d like to allow the public to play a demo of the game at this year’s Tokyo Game Show in September.
Nomura added that currently there aren’t any plans for a “Final Mix” release (like with the first Kingdom Hearts game) but if the developer team went forward with one then that content would be added to the game via updates and DLC.
We recently posted an extensive preview of Kingdom Hearts III and were pretty positive about it!
“Although I had little clue as to what was happening during the demo, I was still heavily interested in the characters of Toy Story and was able to enjoy the combat which was fun, fluid, and fantastical,” our preview noted. “Overall, the Kingdom Hearts 3 demo left me, an inexperienced player of the franchise, looking forward to catching up with the series before the release of Kingdom Hearts 3.”
Kingdom Hearts III is set to come out in Japan on January 25, 2019 and worldwide on January 29, 2019 for the PS4 & Xbox One.