Quote Originally Posted by Aussie2B View Post
Considering how long LRG has sat on many releases for a whole variety of reasons (for example, Super Meat Boy for Vita was manufactured back in March 2019, if not earlier, and still hasn't been sold, outside of some being thrown into blind boxes) and how often LRG has done surprise announcements just barely before the sales day, I think it's very possible they could've lined up something else for 3DS long ago and still haven't announced it for whatever reason. That said, Atooi isn't one of their "distributed" titles and yet still isn't numbered, which does seem to imply there won't be any further 3DS releases.
Guh, I got logged out, had a whole thing written up, so now quick and dirty version...

Papers, Please and Super Meat Boy Vita had triggers in their contracts that they can't release until the newer game that was being done by their publishers was complete. Super Meat Boy Forever and Return of the Obra Dinn both had numerous production issues and that's why these have been drawn out so long. Bleeding out a few copies via the blind boxes sold at Xmas was nice, but it just raged folks who didn't get them because I'm sure there were only a few of each sold. They've since moved away from those line items in newer contracts (like they've also moved away from what happened with Streets of Rage 4 and the releas

I haven't seen the back of the Atooi case to see if it's gotten a number, but it wouldn't be on the spine because that's something NOA isn't allowing as part of their packaging requirements.

Part of me still feels like this is a test run to see how something sells with the minimums they've got to make and a lack of international market to sell to, how the whole production process went and if this will even be viable for additional games in the future if they can't snag something HUGE on the eShop (which at this point would be either a NOA or Capcom title.

Both of the PS3 games have gotten numbered, (both Oddworld titles) and they've talked about getting more done, but I haven't heard anything about more PS3 titles coming but who knows. Axiom Verge doesn't appear to have a number anywhere on it, but due to the huge amount of drama that came with even getting the discs only and having to redo packaging themselves and since production was already shuttered for WiiU titles I think they were just happy to even have something to get it out and make back some of the lost money from the process.