Many publications includingyours truly recently released interviewswithKingdom HeartsSeries Creator and Director Tetsuya Nomura as well asKingdom Hearts: Melody of MemoryMasanobu Suzui and Producer Ichirou Hazama regarding details of the upcoming title as well as the series at large moving forward.Melody of Memorywill be the first game in the franchise making its way to the Nintendo Switch and, according to Nomura, we likely won’t see any previous entries making their way to the platform.
In an interview withNintendo Enthusiast, Nomura explained that there are no plans in motion to getting any older titles to the Switch. In the past, developer Square Enix looked into porting them to the Nintendo console but decided against it because they found too many technical hurdles. WithKingdom Heartsbeing my favorite video game franchise this is disappointing to hear, but it does make sense to a degree. While we don’t know the specific difficulties it is a possibility that the issue is memory storage, specifically on the Nintendo Switch cartridge.
Each cartridge can have 8, 16, or 32GB. We’ve only seen a few titles use the 32GB cartridge as those are notoriously expensive compared to the other two options.The Witcher 3andL.A. Noireare two of these games known for utilizing 32GB cartridges. Even so, only 29.8GB can be used, and based on the PlayStation listing ofKingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 Remix, it could take almost 48GB to get the collection on Switch. There would likely be some cutbacks that would lower the storage size but seemingly not low enough to get to the required amount.
Again there is no confirmation as to whether or not that is the specific problem, but based on what we know, memory could play a factor. At the very least theKingdom Heartsfranchise is available on both PlayStation and Xbox giving players numerous options to jump into the series for the first time.
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memorywill release on November 13 later this year on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. You can pre-order it right now forPS4andSwitchon Amazon.
