Napalm_Frank
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2007 - First mentions of Kingdom Hearts 3. Development not starting for a while due to Nomura's team focusing on Versus XIII.
2012 - Dream Drop Distance gets released. According to Nomura Kingdom Hearts 3 will be the next game in the series. DDD itself also has a secret message that outright spells out ''This leads to Kingdom Hearts III''.
Early 2013 - Development on Kingdom Hearts 3 begins.
June 2013 - Kingdom Hearts 3 officially announced at E3 along with a CGI trailer. Immediately after the reveal Nomura comments that the reveal was made ''a little early''. Osaka team who has been responsible for some handheld spinoffs is now handling the development due to the original Tokyo based team pretty much not existing in it's original form and/or being busy developing Final Fantasy XV. Game is mentioned to be ''at a low stage of development''.
October 2013 - First real gameplay of Kingdom Hearts 3 running on Luminous Engine shown and the footage looks very rough and early to put it mildly.
June 2014 - At E3 Nomura blesses us with some rough character art and Japanese VA talking nonsense.
Summer/Fall 2014 - Somewhere around here the engine is switched from Luminous to Unreal Engine 4.
September 2014 - Square announces that Nomura has been kicked off of FFXV and that ''he will be focusing his efforts on the production of titles that can only be made possible by Nomura, himself, and delivering products that exceed the quality of past titles, starting with another one of his representative projects, Kingdom Hearts III.''
September 2014 - ''Development moving steadily along the estimated schedule. However, we are having a lot of trouble with the image creating part of things due to the engine.''
October 2014 - ''I harness the burning anger in my heart into what I create. Kingdom Hearts IIIs current development explodes very much in this sense.''
December 2014 - Concept trailer shown behind closed doors at KH2.5 release event, never to be shown to the public.
January 2015 - Voice actor of Goofy confirms Kingdom Hearts 3 will release this year!
June 2015 - First actual decentish trailer for KH3 shown at E3. While still rough in places the footage looks much, much better than the last time we saw the game on Luminous. ''Development is on track, development stage of KH3 is relatively advanced.''
August 2015 - New Concept art shown!
November 2015 - Expanded gameplay based on the E3 trailer show at D23 event behind closed doors, released to the public in December.
June 2016 - ''Upcoming KH3 announcements this winter!'' ''I think I will report new information on KH3 along with the release of KH2.8. I hope you now understand that work on KH3 is progressing well, and please look forward to this winter.''
October 2016 - 2 new screenshots!
December 2016 - ''I would really like to release new information, however at this present time I am unable to. I can say that we are currently working out the timing for future announcements. I'm terribly sorry to keep you all waiting for so long, but please wait just a little longer.''
January 2017 - New screenshot to celebrate FF7 20th anniversary! ''Kingdom Hearts 3 has entered a significant time of development.''
February 2017 - New screenshot!
March 2017 - Winter over, no word on the previously promised winter announcements. Nothing at Kingdom Hearts 15th anniversary thus meaning we got more KH3 footage at FF7 anniversary than the series anniversary itself.
April 2017 - Game confirmed by SE President to release "in the next three years or so."
June 2017 - ????????
Do YOU believe in Lord Nomura delivering the goods at E3? Let's put our hands together and pray!
2012 - Dream Drop Distance gets released. According to Nomura Kingdom Hearts 3 will be the next game in the series. DDD itself also has a secret message that outright spells out ''This leads to Kingdom Hearts III''.
Early 2013 - Development on Kingdom Hearts 3 begins.
June 2013 - Kingdom Hearts 3 officially announced at E3 along with a CGI trailer. Immediately after the reveal Nomura comments that the reveal was made ''a little early''. Osaka team who has been responsible for some handheld spinoffs is now handling the development due to the original Tokyo based team pretty much not existing in it's original form and/or being busy developing Final Fantasy XV. Game is mentioned to be ''at a low stage of development''.
October 2013 - First real gameplay of Kingdom Hearts 3 running on Luminous Engine shown and the footage looks very rough and early to put it mildly.
June 2014 - At E3 Nomura blesses us with some rough character art and Japanese VA talking nonsense.
Summer/Fall 2014 - Somewhere around here the engine is switched from Luminous to Unreal Engine 4.
September 2014 - Square announces that Nomura has been kicked off of FFXV and that ''he will be focusing his efforts on the production of titles that can only be made possible by Nomura, himself, and delivering products that exceed the quality of past titles, starting with another one of his representative projects, Kingdom Hearts III.''
September 2014 - ''Development moving steadily along the estimated schedule. However, we are having a lot of trouble with the image creating part of things due to the engine.''
October 2014 - ''I harness the burning anger in my heart into what I create. Kingdom Hearts IIIs current development explodes very much in this sense.''
December 2014 - Concept trailer shown behind closed doors at KH2.5 release event, never to be shown to the public.
January 2015 - Voice actor of Goofy confirms Kingdom Hearts 3 will release this year!
June 2015 - First actual decentish trailer for KH3 shown at E3. While still rough in places the footage looks much, much better than the last time we saw the game on Luminous. ''Development is on track, development stage of KH3 is relatively advanced.''
August 2015 - New Concept art shown!
November 2015 - Expanded gameplay based on the E3 trailer show at D23 event behind closed doors, released to the public in December.
June 2016 - ''Upcoming KH3 announcements this winter!'' ''I think I will report new information on KH3 along with the release of KH2.8. I hope you now understand that work on KH3 is progressing well, and please look forward to this winter.''
October 2016 - 2 new screenshots!
December 2016 - ''I would really like to release new information, however at this present time I am unable to. I can say that we are currently working out the timing for future announcements. I'm terribly sorry to keep you all waiting for so long, but please wait just a little longer.''
January 2017 - New screenshot to celebrate FF7 20th anniversary! ''Kingdom Hearts 3 has entered a significant time of development.''
February 2017 - New screenshot!
March 2017 - Winter over, no word on the previously promised winter announcements. Nothing at Kingdom Hearts 15th anniversary thus meaning we got more KH3 footage at FF7 anniversary than the series anniversary itself.
April 2017 - Game confirmed by SE President to release "in the next three years or so."
June 2017 - ????????
Do YOU believe in Lord Nomura delivering the goods at E3? Let's put our hands together and pray!