A timeline of events:
During Tokyo Game Show 2018 (in September 2018), Umihara Kawase Fresh! was announced and was being published by Success.
Success confirmed at that time that it would be launched digitally worldwide including English and Chinese localisation but physical release outside Japan was unconfirmed.
In January 2019, Success confirmed that Umihara Kawase Fresh! would launch on April 25th in Japan. It is available physically in Japan and digitally from the Japan eShop, it has Japanese, English and Chinese language options. A Success representative told Gematsu the western release would be handled by a different company.
In March 2019, the western release of Umihara Kawase Fresh! is July 9th and is being handled by Nicalis. Here is what was reported:
And here's a tweet from Success:
Fast forward to July 10th where Nicalis has tweeted this:
People in the replies are asking where the game is on the eShop. I've even asked around for people on US and European eShops to check, it's not released on the eShop outside Japan and there's no information I can find from Nicalis on whether it is releasing digitally outside Japan.
During Tokyo Game Show 2018 (in September 2018), Umihara Kawase Fresh! was announced and was being published by Success.
Success confirmed at that time that it would be launched digitally worldwide including English and Chinese localisation but physical release outside Japan was unconfirmed.
In January 2019, Success confirmed that Umihara Kawase Fresh! would launch on April 25th in Japan. It is available physically in Japan and digitally from the Japan eShop, it has Japanese, English and Chinese language options. A Success representative told Gematsu the western release would be handled by a different company.
In March 2019, the western release of Umihara Kawase Fresh! is July 9th and is being handled by Nicalis. Here is what was reported:
And here's a tweet from Success:
Fast forward to July 10th where Nicalis has tweeted this:
People in the replies are asking where the game is on the eShop. I've even asked around for people on US and European eShops to check, it's not released on the eShop outside Japan and there's no information I can find from Nicalis on whether it is releasing digitally outside Japan.
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