Zelda Breath of the Wild cannot be played with Original Voices on Nintendo Switch

Nevertheless and although it is certain that the title will be able to play in several languages, apparently changing the voices and texts will not be so simple.

[FallenAngel1984]

What about the Wii U version

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

The article header is a bit misleading. You CAN play with the Japanese voices, but not through dual audio; you have to change your console region setting to Japanese, which changes everything, text and voices, to Japanese.
Some might prefer to just...ahem...Switch their region right before a big cut scene, but I think dual audio would be so much better. Still, the English voices aren't actually terrible, so I'll deal with it.
Pretty sure the Wii U version will be the same, considering they want consistency between versions.

[Ristul]

I listened to a comparison and the english dub is fine, not as good as the japanese voice over but what can you do.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Glemt]

"But what can you do.[sic]" This is exactly why people are commenting on this, to hope Nintendo will still put in dual audio. The only concern would be storage space, but to be honest I find audio just as important as, or even more important than, video. It's silly to think we can't play the original, but have to settle for translated.

I must add, I think the English voiced Zelda sounds amazing.

[deathtok]

Storage space is not a concern. The tracks are already included you just can't get English subs with Japanese audio.

[Glemt]

@ Deathtok

Very good point!

[rdgneoz3]

It's t hard to do. Many games out of Japan have it standard. FFXIV has it for example, and that's been around for a while. You also have FFXV and the sword art games.

[Phunkydiabetic1]

If you don't understand Japanese why in the hell would you want to have it Japanese?

"Nintendo has crafted this beautiful game but naahhh I'd rather weeb it up and spend my time reading English subtitles while listening to a language I don't understand."

Ridiculous.

[Studio-YaMi]

It's called "having options" and besides the FACT that Japanese voice actors have damn more emotions when voice acting than other countries of course that's not always the case but most of the time it IS.

If you can't deal with that then that's your problem.

[Glemt]

Well, personally I grew up with having to listen to other languages on TV and in games, and either having to learn them or get damn quick at reading subtitles. It's at most a glance to me, so I miss virtually nothing from what's happening on the screen. So yeah, it might be ridiculous for you, because you'd "weeb it up" but not everyone has that problem. It wouldn't be bad to have options, and it wouldn't hurt people like you at all, so why care? If you aim to understand people that do enjoy the original VA and subs, try to understand them before you judge.

[Cy]

Good. My supply of weeb tears is running low.

[Perjoss]

Id much rather play with the Japanese voice + subs, but looks like that wont be possible. Eventually when the system gets emulated the scene will surely upload a version called an undub which will replace english voices with Japanese but keeps all text in english.

[deafdani]

This is beyond retarded. So they have all the language options in game, but won't allow us to put the audio and subtitles how we want? So we have to choose a region and stick fornthe language of that region for everything, audio and texts and all?

WHY

Stupid Nintendo. Stupid!

[Sirk7x]

I really, really hope they change this. I'm gonna play the hell out of the game anyways, but unless the voice talent is superb, dubbed audio bothers the ever living hell out of me.

[lellkay]

Unacceptable.

[PlatinumGX]

Typical Nintendon't.

[Jayszen]

er...this is 2017, isn't it? One has been able to watch and play Japanese games and movies in original language and soundtrack but with English subtitles for years now on DVD, Blu-ray, etc.

The Switch is not using a disc but a cartridge - maybe it cannot cope with something that we all take for granted in 2017.

[AnnaDea]

What a great decision. Everything so they don't need to pay royalties to the voice actors.

Fuck you Nintendo.

[TheGamez100]

Sucky move by nintendo but oh well...can always just change it to jp if you already beat and understand everyting the game once. It was too good to be true after hearing rumors that it would have multiple voices BUT there being a catch.

[TimeSkipLuffy]

LOL way to go bigN. What a hassle...

[feraldrgn]

Stop going cheap Nintendo, pay for the dual audio.

[2cents]

Bit of a BIG oversight not to code for this.

[HumanatPlay]

Japanese VO : Talented and seasoned performers
English VO: Just find anyone who isn't skilled and offer them a couple hundred bucks then call it a day.