According to a new promotional document out of Japan, Devil’s Third will be a retailer exclusive. Those that wish to purchase the title in the country will have to pick it up either from Amazon, or digitally off of the Wii U eShop. Generally speaking, retail exclusive titles are frowned upon, and they often indicate a company’s lack of confidence in a title. The last game that was a retail exclusive from Nintendo was Xenoblade, which could only be purchased from Gamestop. As we all know, Xenoblade quickly sold out from Gamestop and became increasingly challenging to find at retail.

Devil’s Third is slotted for release in Japan on August 4th and on the 28th in Europe. Unfortunately, no US release date has been provided as of yet.