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He worked on games such as Xenosaga Episode I, Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings, Lost Ocean, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier EXCEED, Project X Zone 2, and more. for even longer (16 years to be precise). Naturally, he doesn’t intend on leaving the industry right now, though it’s obviously way too early to say what his next project is going to be!Īs for Koji Ishitani, he had been at Monolith Soft. Soichiro Koizumi worked on games such as Namco x Capcom, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier EXCEED, and Project X Zone, and had been at Monolith Soft for 14 years.

For those who don’t know, those two have been at the company for many years, and both worked on the Project X Zone series (as Director and Producer respectively). Project X Zone 2 is still available for purchase digitally through the eShop as well as through retail and online stores.”ĭoesn’t really answer much as to the why, but at least it confirms that this is not a fluke, and the only way to enjoy this game now if you haven’t downloaded it before is to purchase it physically at retail - arguably the biggest argument against going digital with games.Last week, both Soichiro Koizumi and Koji Ishitani announced they left Monolith Soft on March 31st. Players who have purchased Project X Zone digitally through the eShop may continue to re-download the game to their account and physical copies of Project X Zone continue to be available for purchase at both retail and online stores. “Project X Zone is no longer available for purchase through the Nintendo 3DS eShop as of this past weekend. Update: Well, I’ve heard back, and this is what they had to say: I’ve reached out to Bandai Namco Entertainment America about the matter, and will let you know if I hear anything back. In the meantime, you can still try to track down a physical copy of the game if you’ve got a desire to play more of the saga with Mega Man X, Zero, Tron, and her Servbots in tow. SEGAbits speculates that the reason it has been pulled could be a matter of rights issues, which they note is “why many song tracks were removed when localized in the west.” A more bizarre bit of reasoning suggests that perhaps there is a desire to instead shift focus to the newly-released sequel instead. More alarming would be that the re-download button for those who had downloaded it previously has been replaced with the message “This software is currently unavailable,” though it appears that this can be circumvented by going to your “Redownloadable Software” list on the Nintendo eShop. I just checked this myself, and aside from a couple of trailers for the game, nothing remains - not even the free demo, which Nintendo still advertises as being available on their website entry for the game. In a most peculiar bit of news, Nintendo Everything (via SEGAbits) is reporting that Project X Zone (the original, not its recently-released sequel) has been pulled from the Nintendo eShop in North America and Europe without warning.