I don't get it..

Well Kingdom Hearts 1 was released because it's the begining for the main character of the story and I'm sure Square Enix weren't sue if it would catch on so they didn't even have ideas for BBS yet. Besides it's ok, BBS is a prequal sort of showing what happened first for mysteries we didn't know and to help come up with a story for future games.

 

Its like the star wars series. 4, 5, and 6 came out before 1, 2, and 3 did.

 

Maybe BBS is just to share what else had happened other than KH 1.
KH 1, like Dawn said, was an introduction to the characters and the idea of how to play the game.

 

Where's Bankai when you need him?

I remember reading an interview or something where the secret trailer for KH2 was made just in case people wanted a sequel. Square wasn't sure how popular KH would be. And that leads me to think that BBS was created afterwards because it wasn't thought up when KH was originally thought up.

 

I think it was similar like Crisis Core case.

Final Fantasy VII was big success, they make Crisis Core, Dirge of Cerberus and stuffs.

Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 was big success, they make 358/2 Days, BBS and stuffs.

 

I don't mean to come off as a jerk when I say this, but I just wanted to put it out there. Prequels are released for different books, movies, and video games all the time. Unless you've been shut off from most forms of entertainment, I don't see how you could find this strange.

 

SE didn't know if KH was going to be a success so they didn't know if they probly didn't even think about BBS at first. KH was to introduce Sora the main charecter. So now that KH is a big succes they can send out more KH games around KHI. Plain and Simple, Simple and Clean!

 

When Nomura first created Kingdom Hearts, he didn't even know he was going to create Kingdom Hearts 2 until the end of the first game's production. xD I don't think Birth by Sleep was even in his head at that time.

 

BBS is going to be radically different though. It looks like it will have a more "Final Fantasy" like feel to it than disney oriented, though I'm sure disney stuff is in there somewhere.

 

You've got to love those prequels although they seem to make it more confusing dont they?

 

Its been said before,but Kingdom Hearts isnt the only game,let alone media in general,to do this.Star Wars comes to mind easily,as does Metal Gear Solid.MGS 3 was a prequel,and has games expanding on it as well.

Resident Evil also has a prequel in RE 0,though only by a day in that case.

As for prequels making things more confusing,they do sometimes give you more questions,but many times also answer more then they give.Case in point Birth by Sleep.Wont spoil anything since not everyone wants to know what happened until they get to play it.

 

Let me please stop the non-sense..
Kingdom Hearts 1 was created as the original game. We all know this, Nomura had planned to make a sequel, which ended up being Kingdom Hearts 2. With CoM, it was basically a spur of the moment thing, the KH team wanted us, the fans, know what happened between Sora's year long slumber. Birth By Sleep, well he had an idea, which basically turned into birth by sleep. During the making of the original Kingdom Hearts, he had no idea he would be making something like Birth By Sleep, so he really couldn't put it out first, in fact, he didn't even know what Terra, Ven, or Aqua looked like while making KH2. So all these prequels and side games are just new ideas that he threw on a system, in an attempt to keep us interested.