
It has been out for a little over two years now, but if you finally decided that now's the time to pick up 2022's tactical delight, TRIANGLE STRATEGY, then you're out of luck — at least, you are if you wanted to download it on Switch — because the game has been delisted from the eShop.
Yes, those who have yet to download Triangle Strategy will see that the eShop listing is currently unavailable. The page itself is still there, naturally, but there's no option to digitally purchase it through Nintendo.
Of course, if you have already purchased the game and removed it to save some space, you can still download your old copy, but newcomers are going to have to wait.
Square Enix shared the news on Twitter, stating that it is "working on this" and we should expect an update when the game is available for purchase again:
This isn't all that new from Square Enix. If you cast your mind back to earlier this year, you might remember Octopath Traveler being similarly delisted following the game's publisher changing on Switch from Nintendo to Square Enix. Shortly after this switcheroo, Octopath Traveler started to pop up on other consoles — something we haven't seen from Triangle Strategy... yet. Hmm.
The former delisting took a little over a month to be resolved, so those who are still hoping to pick up Triangle Strategy better get comfy. Or just pick up the physical edition, that's also an option.
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What do you make of Triangle Strategy? Has this sudden delisting thwarted your plans to pick it up? Let us know in the comments.
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@JimNorman just a quick heads up, Triangle Strategy is already on PC and Quest as well
@Terranauts Hah yep, I should have specified "consoles". Thanks for flagging! 🤠
@JimNorman Ahhh, yeah, that's a fair point. And no worries, nice write up!
As soon as I saw the title I also started wondering if it's because of a publisher change à la Octopath Traveler or there's a different reason this time.
Regardless, hope it will be back sooner rather than later for those who don't already have it and interested in getting it digitally (personally, got it at launch physically discounted from my usual retailer here in Italy)!
@JohnnyMind It’s enough to notify us if you get something not “physically discounted”from your usual retailer.
Why would Square Enix, the makers of the game, pull this crap?
@Morsel Apparently not as funnily enough exactly yesterday I didn't specify that I did so from my usual retailer and someone asked me where they could find that game physically discounted!
Same deal as the Octopath Traveler situation from a year ago I suppose. The Nintendo published rights had ended so Square Enix is delisting the Nintendo published version and reuploading their published version. Basically it's the same game just without Nintendo's logo on it. By doing this when the game resell on the eShop, the money won't get split between Square Enix and Nintendo but will go directly to Square Enix themselves instead.
Square needs to get publishing rights from Nintendo to TWEWY on Switch as well, that game never goes on sale anywhere besides Japan where it doesn't have other languages available.
Guessing this is going to happen several more times in the future given how many Dragon Quest games Nintendo's published. Probably also for Bravely Default 2.
That one kind of especially stands out because Nintendo's usual nonsense means you never see it digitally below $42 but you can easily find it physically for a third of that.
Thank you for the honest headline because I have seen a lot of misleading headlines from other publications.
@mikegamer pull this crap? Nintendo published the console version of the game, but Square Enix wants it on other platforms. It has to be delisted for the change of publisher. Once the change is completed, it will return to the eShop with SE as the main publisher and Nintendo's name off of it.
@mikegamer Because they want to have the publishing rights for their own game and not Nintendo. Gives them more control (and more money for every sale). Part of their strategy of focusing on multiplat development.
@Lizuka Yeah they need to get on with all of those other games. Dragon Quest Builders is too expensive compared to the other versions which are regularly on sale for much cheaper.
@Itachi2099 How would you even play the original TWEWY on say PS5 if SE got the publishing rights?
It doesn’t play like the 2nd game at all which was designed for more platforms.
The original TWEWY isn’t even on Steam after all this time unlike Octopath and Triangle. I don’t see the original TWEWY getting ported because it would be a nightmare amount of work for a port job because SE would have to rework TWEWY again just to make it largely playable outside of Switch.
SE isn’t gonna bother to try to get complete publishing rights if the game is gonna end up staying on one platform out of practical reasons instead of the typical “you get the game for X amount of time then we get to port”.
I just want a Chrono Trigger rerelease.
@Arawn93 I know all that, i'm not asking for it to be ported to other platforms, I wanna buy it on Switch lol
It's just frustrating to constantly see NEO TWEWY on eshop for like 20$ almost every sale yet the original TWEWY, which I wanna buy, is just deadlocked to be forever 50$.
@Lizuka That depends on which version Nintendo published. If Nintendo only published the physical version then the digital one won't get delisted but if it's like Octopath Traveler and Triangle Strategy where Nintendo published both physical and digital releases then a delisting in the future for the digital version may happen.
@Ultimapunch Its 30th anniversary is in March, I could maybe see them dropping the Steam version on consoles around then. Is very overdue.
@Lizuka the steam version isn’t great but I’d take it at this point over nothing.
@Orpheus79V
SE being stupid as usual
@mikegamer I don't think it's remotely stupid.
@Orpheus79V just proves how volatile digital media is
@mikegamer It'll be back in like a week or two
@Orpheus79V Point still stands, digital only games are volatile
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