{"id":36878,"date":"2018-07-31T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drum_lnr_fun_will_be_digital-only_in_the_west_despite_official_box_art_release"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T16:15:00","slug":"taiko-no-tatsujin-drum-n-fun-will-be-digital-only-in-the-west-despite-official-box-art-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/taiko-no-tatsujin-drum-n-fun-will-be-digital-only-in-the-west-despite-official-box-art-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum \u2018n\u2019 Fun Will Be Digital-Only In The West Despite Official Box Art Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drum_lnr_fun_will_be_digital-only_in_the_west_despite_official_box_art_release\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drum_lnr_fun_will_be_digital-only_in_the_west_despite_official_box_art_release\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"taiko.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drum_lnr_fun_will_be_digital-only_in_the_west_despite_official_box_art_release\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drum_lnr_fun_will_be_digital-only_in_the_west_despite_official_box_art_release\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"taiko.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Fans of the <strong>Taiko<\/strong> series were no doubt overjoyed to hear the news that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drum_lnr_fun\"><strong>Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum \u2018n\u2019 Fun!<\/strong><\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drum_lnr_fun_officially_confirmed_for_western_switch_release\">being released in the west<\/a> this November, but a steady trickle of sad &#8211; yet mostly understandable\u00a0&#8211; disappointments have followed since.<\/p>\n<p>After the game&#8217;s western reveal, Bandai Namco confirmed that the Hori Taiko drum controller, which mimics the traditional arcade units seen in Japan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/hori_taiko_drum_controller_wonrt_be_released_in_the_west_but_heres_where_you_can_get_one\">would not be seeing a release outside of Japan<\/a>. Adding to this, the company has now also confirmed that the game will not receive a physical release. This wouldn&#8217;t have been too surprising, or even too much of an issue other than for collectors, apart from the fact that Bandai Namco also shared an image of the North American physical box art.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">*Update* Bandai Namco has confirmed to Gematsu that both Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session! (PS4) and Drum &#8216;n&#8217; Fun (Switch) will be digital-only releases in the west.<\/p>\n<p>Drum Session: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lal3qNnBgs\">https:\/\/t.co\/Lal3qNnBgs<\/a><br \/>Drum &#8216;n&#8217; Fun: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9gVJlJsF41\">https:\/\/t.co\/9gVJlJsF41<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QP1u1OkPgS\">pic.twitter.com\/QP1u1OkPgS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Gematsu (@gematsucom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gematsucom\/status\/1024207126309339137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drum_lnr_fun_will_be_digital-only_in_the_west_despite_official_box_art_release\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drum_lnr_fun_will_be_digital-only_in_the_west_despite_official_box_art_release\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"The previously released North American box art for the game\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The previously released North American box art for the game<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Does this mean the game was originally intended to be released physically, but has since been stripped back to digital-only? Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, having a slightly more tentative release in western territories makes a lot of sense &#8211; it&#8217;s currently unclear just how well the game might perform outside of Japan &#8211; but this certainly is a curiously confusing step in the process.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you looking forward to getting your hands on this game? Do you mind the fact that it won&#8217;t be getting a physical release after all? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of the Taiko series were no doubt overjoyed to hear the news that\u00a0Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum \u2018n\u2019 Fun! is being released in the west this November, but a steady trickle of sad &#8211; yet mostly understandable\u00a0&#8211; disappointments have followed since. After the game&#8217;s western reveal, Bandai Namco confirmed that the Hori Taiko drum controller, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}