Not ten games but there are
This is such a dumb argument to make. We already knew Kingdom Hearts III was in development long before it was announced, or at least could make the educated guess that Osaka Team had moved on to Kingdom Hearts III after DDD based on everything Nomura & Yasue were saying about Osaka Team's next project around Fall 2012 & even before DDD's release. It hurts no one to know it's officially in development.
So would the biggest reason it's taking longer than it should is that they had to make most if not all of the assets and scenarios from the ground up to run on UE4?
There's five full games + a short teaser in the form of A Fragmentary Passage that you have to actually play before III if you want to be caught up. The games aren't necessarily all that long if you just want to play through the stories before III. If you just rush through them you shouldn't be taking more than 15-25 hours per game, so you could be done in (less than) 100 hours if you don't mind not spending a lot of time exploring and doing some fun side content (and some not-so-fun).
No, they didn't have to scrap any graphical assets they had done, those could be transferred to UE4 pretty painlessly, IIRC what Yasue has said about the subject. Mostly they just had some trouble with grasping the use of shaders and probably just getting to grips with the use of Unreal Engine 4 and even had Epic help with getting to know that stuff.
You simply cannot ignore all the important, almost-mainline-KH-level games like BBS & DDD that have been released since then. It hasn't been over a decade since they last released KH games that build up lore and the grander story that will lead into the potentially epic finale in KHIII.
And Kingdom Hearts 3 makes 10.
Considering Days, Coded and Chi/Back Cover are officially in movie form at this point and 0.2 is a 3-4 hours long taster of things to come, there's no need to exaggerate as if there are almost 10 actual games to go through. There's 5 actual games to play through. It's not a little, but it's also not completely insurmountable a task, especially if one takes the aim of first just going through the main scenario of each game and leaves most of the side-content/100%ing/Platinuming for a later time.
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I don't see why it would be zero. They got Tron Legacy in Dream Drop Distance only about a year after the film came out and a Chicken Little summon in KH2 the same year that movie came out.
Sure, but when we have people come in these KH2.8, KH1.5 + 2.5 and KHIII threads with an interest to maybe get into the series but a bit scared of how many entries there have been so far, I think it's important to make the clarification that although there are 9 stories so far, almost half of them are not endeavours that take dozens of hours but 3 of them are actually stuff that you can just watch in a couple of nights (though you don't need to, considering how unimportant Days, Coded & Chi are) and one is a kind of epilogue/prologue (epilogue for BBS, prologue for KHIII). It's still a pretty big undertaking but, again, not something completely impossible if one doesn't intend to 100% the games straight away.
I need to see Donald and Goofy reacting to being turned into animals.
There's a big difference between "can't" and "won't". It's not necessarily that they can't announce a release date or even the year, but I'd say it's more likely that they just won't because it's still maybe at least some 12 months away from release (+/- 2-3 months) and they'll probably want to announce the year or date at a big event like E3, Gamescom or TGS, or even a completely separate event devoted purely for Kingdom Hearts, not just some random Thursday in February.
I think now that XV and 2.8 are out, they are about to open the floodgates on KH3. The last year they had those two games to focus on, if not for them we would know more. Nomura said there will be non-stop KH news this year, and has continually said KH3 stuff will come after 2.8. I pretty much guarantee you, we will know a lot more by D23 in July.
We have Nomura's word that we'll get a lot more actual KHIII stuff from now on. The only reason we haven't seen much of Kingdom Hearts III in the last year or so is because KHBBS 0.2 has been the focus of KH hype (which is basically almost the same as them showing KHIII), so your snarky pessimism is not only ridiculously unwarranted, it just makes you seem like a butthurt, silly child.
Not sensitive, just think a millionth such post is just stupid at this point, when 2.8 has clearly been hogging the spotlight and now that it's out of the way, we can start expecting more KHIII news in the not too distant future.
I cant wait for Hades to trick another FF char
So this is where we'll get the Lightning insert.
