Square Enix has had a lot of time to think about the development timeline for Kingdom Hearts 3. With all of this free time, they've developed remakes in the form of both Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix. While these were made in order to bring late comers to the franchise up to speed, they've also proven themselves to be solid reiterations on the Playstation 3.
As it turns out, Square Enix might have plans to bring these remakes to the Playstation 4. Co-director of the game, Yai Tasue, spoke to IGN about the possibility of such a development.
"When we first came up with the idea for Kingdom Hearts III, it was always 1.5, then 2.5 and we were always thinking about those three titles at the same time," he explains. "I think [putting the games on PS4] is something we’ll explore. We understand what our players want, so we will explore the possibility. I’m not making any announcements though, we can’t make any announcements yet!"
However, Tasue's tone changed when he was asked about the likelihood of Xbox One versions of the games.
"It’s a big old question," he says. "There’s a lot of things we need to think of when we consider consoles. One of them is what our players want, so we will definitely consider that. But there’s also schedule constraints, as we really don’t want the development of Kingdom Hearts III going later, so we have that to think about. We’ll consider all these things and come to a decision."
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix is available today for Playstation 3 owners in North America. It should be available to the rest of the world by the end of the week.