Coded's Production Halted?

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Published on May 25, 2008 @ 05:49 pm

Written by bittermeat

Recent articles on the FF7AC and FF&KH blogs are reporting that Square Enix has halted production on games in their mobile department. It is currently unclear if Kingdom Hearts coded is one of the suspended titles, but there is concern for it.

Here's the report segment on mobile gaming, the original report of the press conference can be found here.

In March 2008, Square Enix President Yoichi Wada held a press conference discussing the development of Dragon Quest IX starting this year. In his presentation, President Wada brings up the subject of mobile networking games, claiming that production has been suspended on major titles.

About the suspension, he explains that, "Development of the titles has experienced over 3 billion in loss of appraisal. A review of the development system was performed and determined that the timing is unsuitable for the mobile department to be working on the networking games being developed for major titles, therefore production has stopped."

The names of the games effected by the production halt were not specified and are not clear at this time.

But since President Wada mentions "major titles", its assumed he was talking about the major mobile games currently being developed, Final Fantasy XIII Agito and Kingdom Hearts coded.

Regardless, a halt in gaming development is disappointing to hear.

We'll have to wait for future reports to confirm whether or not KH: coded is among the games being suspended. It has also been unclear whether or not coded would be released stateside through Square Enix Moblie NA, but this pause in development puts it further off.

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