{"id":383524,"date":"2025-10-28T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2172262"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:43:53","slug":"kingdom-hearts-producer-says-the-team-is-still-undecided-on-the-idea-of-native-switch-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/kingdom-hearts-producer-says-the-team-is-still-undecided-on-the-idea-of-native-switch-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Hearts producer says the team is still &#8220;undecided&#8221; on the idea of native Switch ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kingdom-hearts-producer-says-the-team-is-still-undecided-on-the-idea-of-native-switch-ports.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kingdom Hearts series producer Ichiro Hazama has opened up on why the team decided to bring the main <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-10-05-kingdom-hearts-back-catalogue-coming-to-nintendo-switch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingdom Hearts trilogy to Nintendo Switch via cloud streaming<\/a> and not native ports.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/10\/wish-kingdom-hearts-was-native-on-switch-a-true-port-is-still-undecided\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Life<\/a>, Hazama said: &#8220;For some time, our director Tetsuya Nomura had expressed his desire to deliver the Kingdom Hearts series to Nintendo Switch players, him having seen and heard the demand, and so a great deal of consideration went into this internally. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-10-17-kingdom-hearts-producer-says-the-team-is-still-undecided-on-the-idea-of-native-switch-ports\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-10-17-kingdom-hearts-producer-says-the-team-is-still-undecided-on-the-idea-of-native-switch-ports\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingdom Hearts series producer Ichiro Hazama has opened up on why the team decided to bring the main Kingdom Hearts trilogy to Nintendo Switch via cloud streaming and not native ports. In an interview with our friends at Nintendo Life, Hazama said: &#8220;For some time, our director Tetsuya Nomura had expressed his desire to deliver the Kingdom Hearts series to Nintendo Switch players, him having seen and heard the demand, and so a great deal of consideration went into this internally. 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