Square Enix brings Kingdom Hearts collection and IV to Switch 2, PS5, Xbox, PC

Square Enix used its latest Kingdom Hearts reveal to tackle the series’ oldest problem head-on: how to get new and lapsed players caught up before the next mainline game arrives. Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] is set for October 8, 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC through Microsoft Store on Windows, and Square Enix says it will run natively on those platforms instead of through cloud streaming.

That matters because the bundle is built as a true catch-up package. It rolls together Kingdom Hearts -HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX-, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind DLC, giving the series’ opening stretch a single modern release instead of the usual scavenger hunt across remasters and legacy storefronts. Pre-orders opened June 9, and Square Enix Store listed the collection at $74.99.

Square Enix also gave Switch 2 owners a second entry point with a free Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind demo. One part of that demo carries save data into the full game, while another serves as a non-transferable showcase segment. For players who bounced off the series years ago, that is the cleanest on-ramp Square Enix has offered in a long time.

The fine print also shows how much Square Enix is trying to unwind the old cloud-era access problem on Nintendo hardware. The company previously sold Kingdom Hearts on Switch as cloud versions, and owners of earlier cloud releases, including Kingdom Hearts INTEGRUM MASTERPIECE for Cloud, can receive a 50% discount on some digital native versions. Square Enix’s own support pages also note that the physical version is not eligible for that discount. On the logistics side, Nintendo’s store listing says digital content requires an internet-connected system with automatic downloads enabled, while Square Enix’s EU store says the physical version still needs an internet connection and an additional data download.

The bigger signal is Kingdom Hearts IV. Square Enix debuted a new trailer alongside the collection announcement and confirmed that the next mainline game is coming to Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. For a franchise that first launched in 2002 and had surpassed 36 million copies shipped worldwide by 2024, the move feels less like routine promotion than a long-overdue course correction. Kingdom Hearts has always been about keeping up with a sprawling story; now Square Enix is finally making the hardware side of that journey less punishing.