Tetsuya Nomura is putting equal efforts in both Kingdom Hearts III and FFVII Remake

[Yoshirai 145]

Tetsuya Nomura, the game director of the Kingdom Hearts saga, recently confirmed, during an interview at the E3 with The Verge that he and the whole team are putting "equal efforts" into both Final Fantasy VII Remake and Kingdom Hearts III, as both projects are being developed in parallel.

 

“We are developing [Final Fantasy VII] in parallel, and it’s not just in the early concept stages, we are actually in development"

He precises:

 

"So right now, it’s like I’ve been putting in 100 percent into Kingdom Hearts, 100 percent into Final Fantasy VII, 100 percent into Kingdom Hearts... just going back and forth, it’s just like [working on] two titles is just going to be one [after Kingdom Hearts III’s launch]. That’s pretty much how I see it"

Concerning the release date issue that recently came out, according to Nomura the game wasn't delayed because it needed more time:

 

“We were told by many people, including hardware manufacturers, sales teams, marketing teams, that it just wasn’t good timing in the year," - and when Square Enix pondered the “very tail end” of 2018, the holiday season became another possible problem - “For Kingdom Hearts III, the Western offices requested to release the game as simultaneously as possible between Japan and America, so we no longer were able to just think about Japanese issues and retail situations,”

The company then had to factor possibilities of retailers in specific regions closing early or offering limited sales hours:

 

“When we looked toward that, we were told that the best timing after all of that would be the tail end of January,” Nomura says. “We of course considered maybe speeding up the development to release earlier than we were told that it wasn’t good, but the development team said, no, we can’t do that. We could delay it, but we can’t make it any sooner. If we are to also potentially delay the release date, then we could have that extra time to work on the game a little more. It kind of just all worked together for us to decide on this date.”

Last but not least, he says that he owes a lot to his fans, which keeps him motivated to keep on going creating:

 

“I actually don’t like human relationships more than just work, so I just want to focus on work and creating things, if I don’t have to deal with human relationships. It’s actually a little bit easier for me to do than not working.” - also - “I do need fans to play my games, to be able to create it, and so fans are definitely a factor to motivate me to keep on going.”

We want to remember you that Kingdom Hearts III is going to be released in January 25th 2019 in Japan and Worldwide in January 29th 2019. Be sure to keep following our E3 2018 coverage on our site and on all our social medias (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr)!

 

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[Jingilator 922]

Guess those reports are still to be taken with a grain of salt for now.

[Dustin Lübbers 933]

well that explains why both are taking so long. The man surely deserves a vacation when FF7 and Kh3 are out. But not for to long because I want kh4 to appear before 2024

[keyslinger 307]

i feel bad for him. But if he enjoys it then all the power to him.

[KingdomHearts3 2,591]

Wow so there were many reasons why they had to push it to January 2019. It makes sense because everyone from the company to retailers and so on has to be on the same page and it wasn’t until next year when that was possible. It’s a nice inside look as to how games are released.

[AwesomeKHfan 1,250]

You know I always felt sort of bad for Nomura working on two of the most hyped and cult following game franchises of all time.

My condelence to Nomura.

[The Transcendent Key 12,109]

Thanks for informing us about this, Yoshirai!

 

Well, it's good that Nomura and his team are putting equal work into both Kingdom Hearts III and FFVII Remake! After KHIII releases on January, it'll finally give Nomura some breathing room to work fully on FFVII Remake! And this gives him and his team time to polish up the game in general, so really, I'm not bothered, especially since I'm playing the original FFVII on PS3 for the first time, so yeah!

[Kaweebo 3,617]

“I actually don’t like human relationships more than just work”

 

Is Nomura an alien?? lol