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I see myself saying this a lot,not only here, but on other sites as well, so I figured I'd make a topic. While there are many topics regarding a possible port, most of them lean heavily to the side of it happening, which is understandable, the more KH the better, right? But let's be realistic here. The chances of a PS4 port are, quite frankly, very slim. Not only because because of the schedule restraints, but for another reason as well. A big one. As it stands now, porting it to the PS4 would be illegal. I don't know how it is with Microsoft, which it why I haven't mentioned the XBOX ONE yet, despite it being in the title and tags, but Sony mandates that all PS4 games receive digital copies. Square-Enix and Disney Interactive do not currently have the rights to digital versions of any of Utada Hikaru's songs. If they port it to the PS4 they will have to make a digital copy as well, the release of which would clearly violate the their contact with Utada. The only way to avoid this would be to remove her songs from the digital versions of the games entirely. You may bring up the fact that Kingdom Hearts III is releasing on PS4. Yes it is, but we don't yet know if they plan to use the songs they've been using for the past 12 years. It is likely they aren't because, as stated, doing so would entail a mandatory digital release of Hikari/Simple and Clean and/or Passion/Sanctuary. This also means that for the third game in the series, we will get a brand new opening song. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know how long licensing contract last, but until it expires they are bound by its terms. If they are allowed to retain the rights to the two specific versions of each of the four songs these provided them, then they are free to do as they please, if however the rights revert back to Utada, then they will have to get new songs anyway, which also frees them up to release the games digitally. So, until or unless the the contract expires, they decide to remove the songs from the digital copies or they manage to renegotiate with Utada and all three parties agree to the terms, we won't be seeing Kingdom Hearts HD ReMIx collections on the PS4 any time soon. P.S. My apologies hatok. I assure you, did not make this thread simply in reply to yours, but because I see myself saying the same thing on this subject every time it comes upon the sites I visit.- 22 replies
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