Reggie: Nintendo is committed to the Virtual Console, takes a lot of work, sales strongest in the Americas

Virtual Console news was noticeably absent from E3 last week. Aside from new title confirmations from Capcom and Natsume, there just wasn’t much there.

As part of an E3 interview with Kotaku, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime reaffirmed that Nintendo’s commitment to the service “is exceptionally strong.” He also explained, “there is significant work to take a game that was launched on a previous platform and make it compatible on the current platform”.

You can find all of Reggie’s comments about the Virtual Console below.

Our commitment to virtual console is exceptionally strong. We just launched some of the Game Boy Advance games. Those are doing exceptionally well in our market. We’ve announced the intention to have a DS library of games in the Wii U eShop. We’re looking forward to that, so the pipeline is there. I do think what many of your readers don’t recognize is there is significant work to take a game that was launched on a previous platform and make it compatible on the current platform, whether we’re talking Wii U or 3DS, but we’re committed to Virtual Console. I’m fortunate that the Americas are the strongest region in terms of driving Virtual Console sales, so for us it’s a vibrant piece of the business.