PAL VC might get NTSC games later on

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Some very heartening news once again for our European gaming brethren. You may just see a day when your virtual console can be seen playing old-school NTSC games.

A spokesperson for Nintendo UK told Eurogamer earlier that there was “always the potential for games that haven’t seen the light of day in Europe to be on the Virtual Console. The Virtual Console is the perfect platform for them”. This could also mean the eventual arrival of games previously unseen in the United Kingdom, such as Chrono Trigger for the SNES. Remarked the spokesperson, “I can’t speak for third parties, but if it’s the right game then there’s absolutely no reason why it should just be a first party game”.

Of course, this is all speculatory at this point. Current policy is to keep VC games relegated to the particular regions they were previously released in. At the same time, George Harrison, Nintendo of America‘s VP has also said that he was open to previously unavailable Japanese games getting released in the US provided they were “translated properly”. You can definitely bet that American games heading to UK shores won’t be as big a hassle for translators as Japanese to American.

PALNTSC - Image 1  

Some very heartening news once again for our European gaming brethren. You may just see a day when your virtual console can be seen playing old-school NTSC games.

A spokesperson for Nintendo UK told Eurogamer earlier that there was “always the potential for games that haven’t seen the light of day in Europe to be on the Virtual Console. The Virtual Console is the perfect platform for them”. This could also mean the eventual arrival of games previously unseen in the United Kingdom, such as Chrono Trigger for the SNES. Remarked the spokesperson, “I can’t speak for third parties, but if it’s the right game then there’s absolutely no reason why it should just be a first party game”.

Of course, this is all speculatory at this point. Current policy is to keep VC games relegated to the particular regions they were previously released in. At the same time, George Harrison, Nintendo of America‘s VP has also said that he was open to previously unavailable Japanese games getting released in the US provided they were “translated properly”. You can definitely bet that American games heading to UK shores won’t be as big a hassle for translators as Japanese to American.

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