Unless he’s sneakily trying to throw fans off the scent, there’ll be no Kingdom Hearts 4 at this year’s Summer Game Fest event. Host and organiser Geoff Keighley said during a Twitch Q&A that “people are setting themselves up for failure” by expecting the next entry in the Square Enix and Disney crossover series, but he added “you guys can keep hoping”.
With both Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth now out of the way, it stands to reason that the Japanese publisher will turn its attention to Sora and crew next. Of course, there’ll be plenty of other opportunities for the firm to reveal the foray: D23, a Disney fan convention, is scheduled to get underway in August, for example.
Keighley did state later in his livestream that Summer Game Fest will largely feature updates to already announced games, although there will be a handful of new bits and pieces, too. The show itself will get underway from 2PM PDT / 5PM EDT / 10PM BST on Friday, 7th June. You can find more information through here.
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Good morning, pain.
We're used to waiting 10 years for a game.
Honestly I see where people r coming from cuz of his hypeing up the games on steam and the new version of simple and clean and I believe he also made comments about 7 and 13 which holds strong significance for the series
Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Ah phooey. Donald Duck mad face 😡
Well, the usual eternal waiting.
Yeah because it is going to be at Sony's September showcase.
Square Enix wasn't on the partner list for Summer Game Fest so this isn't a surprise. Which leaves the Xbox showcase out of the current event season as the remaining possibility if any (won't be at the Nintendo Direct because the rest of the franchise is cloud versions for the current Switch and there's no news on the successor).
What is the point of SGF if it's mostly "updates to already announced games?" What is there to update? It's not gameplay deep dives, it's not announcements, what is it? Updated trailers for existing trailers? It's such a bizarre event. It tries to pretend to be E3 while being nowhere in the same league. I watch it, like many, out of desperation for something better, while failing to find much enjoyable about it.
I could see it at the Xbox presentation. RGG has been doing announcements through Xbox's streams so why not Square.
The Dorito though
@Deadlyblack which is weird because Xbox is the last place people want to play RPG’s lol but at this point PlayStation isn’t much better.
@personauser93 I get that but Kingdom Hearts 3's showcase trailer was aired at Xbox's E3 back in 2018 so it's not far fetched.
@NEStalgia Seemingly it exists to gain viewers for adverts, like any commercial TV event. It's a shame there isn't an actual celebration of gaming with big announcements and moments, but instead we have what's basically bait to get eyes on ads.
@Matroska The most depressing part is that E3 itself was already an advertisement for the products of the publishers, but we've managed to sink lower. Now we just skip the ads for the products of the gaming industry and just use the gaming industry to sell ads for other products (and F2P mobile casinos.)
Although if the console market keeps aging as the kids move to phones, it's only a matter of time before SGF is just there to sell ads for adult diapers and life insurance.
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