{"id":8219,"date":"2026-05-24T04:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/kingdom-hearts-cloud-version-switch-demos-removed-from-eshop-us\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:03:41","slug":"kingdom-hearts-cloud-version-switch-demos-removed-from-eshop-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/kingdom-hearts-cloud-version-switch-demos-removed-from-eshop-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Hearts Cloud Version Switch Demos Removed From eShop (US)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>When the Kingdom Hearts cloud versions were originally made available via the Switch eShop, players could test out a &#8220;free demo&#8221; before actually buying the full experience.<\/p>\n<p>In an update, the same demos have now been removed from Nintendo&#8217;s digital shop in the US (thanks for the heads up, My Nintendo News). In saying this, the full cloud versions of these games can still be purchased.<\/p>\n<p>The following text also remains on each cloud version&#8217;s page listing: &#8220;This game requires an internet connection to play. Please try out the free demo before purchase&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Although the demos are no longer listed on the US store pages, they&#8217;re still available in locations such as the UK and Japan. Square Enix hasn&#8217;t shared any official announcements about the removal of these demos, but if we hear any updates, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, there&#8217;s already plenty of speculation &#8211; with some suggesting it could just be related to licensing or an error, while others are hopeful it might lead to something more. There have also been some rumours.<\/p>\n<p>This collection originally made its debut in 2022 and included <strong>Kingdom Hearts &#8211; HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix<\/strong>, <strong>Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue<\/strong> and <strong>Kingdom Hearts III<\/strong>. You can find out more about it in our review:<\/p>\n<p>Have you tried out the cloud versions of these games on Switch? Would you like to see these titles get a proper release on Nintendo&#8217;s platform? <em>Let us know your thoughts in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source mynintendonews.com]<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p>\tSee Also<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\">\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer on Nintendo Life. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Kingdom Hearts cloud versions were originally made available via the Switch eShop, players could test out a &#8220;free demo&#8221; before actually buying the full experience. In an update, the same demos have now been removed from Nintendo&#8217;s digital shop in the US (thanks for the heads up, My Nintendo News). In saying this,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5661,7890,4202,6192,4530,6623,314,459],"class_list":{"0":"post-8219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-console-gaming","8":"tag-cloud","9":"tag-demos","10":"tag-eshop","11":"tag-hearts","12":"tag-kingdom","13":"tag-removed","14":"tag-switch","15":"tag-version"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}