Hudson 'evaluating' North American VC release for Ys

by JC Fletcher { May 6th 2008 at 2:15PM }

In an interview about digital distribution (Bomberman for all!), Siliconera asked Hudson's Vice President of Product Development, Sabine Duvall, about the prospects for an U.S. release of the Turbografx-16 CD-Rom version of Ys Book I & II. Her response: "We'd love to make our fans happy, so we're still evaluating if it's right to bring Ys over."

We fully expect the game to show up on Virtual Console here at some point. There's no reason for it not to. It's not even as if Ys is an import title like Battle Lode Runner or DoReMi Fantasy. It was released in the U.S. For that matter, it was bundled with TG16 CD-Rom drives.

But for whatever reason, they've been evaluating this for a long time. Ys was actually given an ESRB rating back in November. We wonder if they're trying to decide between releasing Ys I & II as an $8 VC download and publishing the DS games that recently bombed in Japan.

Tags: arpg, falcom, hudson, ys

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Roto13 @ May 6th 2008 3:00PM

"We wonder if they're trying to decide between releasing Ys I & II as an $8 VC download and publishing the DS games that recently bombed in Japan."

That's probably it. How much of a risk are they willing to put in. The Virtual Console version would cost barely anything to port over, but it wouldn't have as high a return as a DS game.

shawn @ May 6th 2008 4:25PM

thats a silly question of course put it on the vc,that is a classic series whether it bombed here in the usa,who cares bring it back to life

jorgiex @ May 6th 2008 8:20PM

All I know is that I have been waiting to turn my Wii back on for a good reason. I never liked Mario Kart, or Super Smash Bros. I have downloaded all of the NeoGeo, TurboGrafX games and a few Genesis and SNES games. I won't be back untill I get my CD version of Y's book 1 & 2. Give me Y's......!