Bandai Namco is only releasing Digimon World: Next Order in English on PS4, but it looks like that wasn't always their plan.
Bandai Namco Switch eShop sale for November 2023 includes big discounts for Klonoa, Digimon World, and more.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "If you love Digimon and want to play some great Digimon games, don’t worry: between Cyber Sleuth and Survive, you have more than enough content to satiate your needs on the Switch. Digimon World: Next Order is nowhere near as good, fun, engaging or memorable as these other titles. Sure, it might be a love letter to a PS1 classic (?), but there’s a reason as to why not a single other Digimon World besides that first game had Tamagotchi-based gameplay, it just wasn’t fun. Digimon World: Next Order isn’t fun either. A grindy, monotonous patience test, just ignore this one. Even if the fact you can make your monsters poop sounds too enticing to be ignored."
From GamesReviews:"With a franchise series like Digimon, there has always been a feverish fan base that loved the series and scoffed in the face of Pokémon. Well all these years later we know which series ended up on top. But despite all that Digimon games do still occasionally come out. Digimon World: Next Order is a port of a game that originated on Vita, then made its way to PS4 stateside and now reaches a new audience with a release on Steam and the Nintendo Switch. Now, I have never been a Digimon person myself, but I have always been aware of the popularity it did have as well as some of the Digimon themselves were familiar to me on site. So how does this game hold up on modern systems releasing only a few months after Pokémon Scarlet and Violet."
Crap they have a sale for the other one this reminded me to buy it
And for some reason despite digimon being a kids to teen series they want to make it not have a dub option... Reasons digimon never took off in NA are these bad choices
From what I have understood, Asian/Chinese releases can quite often have english versions available too, so this could be just a matter of them not thinking this is a significant enough feature to enable/code into the game.
Still, sucks that they wont release the game even in this state to the western markets. Maybe they thought that people wouldnt be digging the disparity between the two console versions now that they have said that the PS4 version will have slightly better graphics, and full english voice acting?
Still should get released for the few folks that have the Vita. Digital re-release cant be that expensive?