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Heading to PSP, DS, and Cell Phones next year.

SquareEnix's biggest announcement at TGS so far is the further expansion of the Kingdom Hearts series in the form of three new portable titles: Birth By Sleep for PSP, 358/2 Days for DS, and Coded for mobile phones. 

Birth By Sleep seems to be the most straightforward of the three, playing much like it's PS2 predecessors, while telling a prequel story.

358/2 Days (is that supposed to be pronounced "179 Days"?) will apparently focus on 4 player simultaneous play involving members of Organization XIII and will be fully 3D, not sprite based like the GBA's Chain of Memories. Word is the title will make sense when you play the game. Hey, any title that doubles as a math problem has piqued my interest.

Coded is the obligatory cell phone game that, like Before Crisis, Parasite Eve 3, and FF Agito XIII, no one outside of Japan will ever get to play. Do you really need to know any more than that?

The DS and PSP games will inevitably reach US shores, although I'm thinking both will receive name changes during the localization process, forever robbing us of the opportunity to witness children (or even better, their Grandma's) asking their neighborhood Gamestop clerk for "Kingdom Hearts: Three Hundred and Fifty-Eight Divided by Two Days". 

It's also safe to assume that both games will get bundled in with some sort of limited edition version of their respective platforms, in Japan only of course.

[via 1up]