Cooking Mom: Cookstar She's leaving the Shop again – ran into first-page news at the weekend.
A few days ago, IGN reported that the Switch title was released at the US switchch in the Shop last week, but has since been canceled. This extends to many other regions including the UK and Australia and is said to apply to physical release copies in certain regions. If you search for a game on Switch eShop in any of these regions, no results are available. We had a look across multiple eShop and found similar results. If you try to find the game go ahead Nintendo's website, only the oldest creations in the series are visible.
On the front of the body, the game is written on GameStop, but not currently available for purchase. Over in Europe, many retailers like GAME they take pre-orders and the release dates for the title are all in place. At the time, in Australia, people appear access to physical copies of the game, and available for purchase at EB Games.
Some fans contacted Nintendo's American account to find out what was going on, and there was speculation in some quarters that it might never have been officially released.
Then speculation about cryptocurrency began, mainly because when the game was first revealed, the developer of 1stable Play blockchain technology. It was said that the game was hacked because it was found that they were using the power of a switchch switch to generate cryptocurrency.
At about the same time, the developer responded to these claims (thank you, Nintendo Everything), and it was emphasized that the claims regarding blockchain tech used in the game were "hypocritical":
As developers we can say for sure that there is no cryptocurrency or data collection or blockchain or anything else that is confusing to code. The Nintendo switchch is a very secure platform, with no data and privacy issues associated with certain mobile and PC games. This is a release from February of 2019, and we've been thinking about emotions like a lot of releases about blockchain. Blockchain has never been revealed to us developers, and we were pleased to hear it in late 2019. It doesn't happen anytime soon.
This statement was promptly followed by reports by theaminer suggesting that the offending code was removed prior to launch and this may be the cause of the deleted play:
Other claims have surfaced, with some thinking they were drawn because they use YouTube-recorded music:
The most recent update on this growing issue comes from an engineer who claims to be involved in the design of the game itself. Speaking to ScreenRant, an engineer – who wishes to remain anonymous – has dismissed the cryptocurrency claim:
A statement about crypto-currency are all buzz words. The planetary head of entertainment knows very little about these things … he just put in some good language to find potential investors who might like those things. As for crashes / overheating. That will be due to the fact that the game is unified. With so many people working on their first game … it's not a very good product but it did it with several powerful Nintendo and Tony updates. There is no way crypto-mining things could get through those tests. I doubt anyone at 1p would be able to do such a thing.
According to the developer, the real reason the game was canceled is due to a dispute between the publisher and the IP owner:
There is a legal battle between the publisher, the entertainment of the planet and the ip manager, the creation of the office … planetary entertainment has kicked off the game against the office's request to further force the game, or possibly even cancel it. At one time, official Japanese buyers came to oversee the development. The dispute started and clients were told to return home if it was "unbelievable". Once they found out that planetary entertainment kicked off the game, they used nintendo contacts to take it out of the e-store and stop production of cartridges.
Overall, everyone at 1p loves their mother's cooking franchise and did their best to make the best product by looking at the distraction from the top. I think the game is perfect, but it would have done well without the publishers constantly stumbling … "
It sounds like all the releases have been compiled, with the developer claiming that advertising and social media posts have been concentrated before launching. Now it looks like the publisher will sue Office Create for a loss of revenue – which could mean the game never ends on a proper launch.
It's definitely been a slow process, and we'll keep this post updated with any new news we're hearing.
