Mature 3DS games to get black packaging in Japan

Black is for grown-ups

Taking a lead from a packaging policy that they introduced for the Wii last year, Nintendo will be packaging their mature 3DS titles in black cases.

Any game which achieves the Japanese equivalent of a BBFC 15 or a PEGI 16+ (CERO C) will be packaged in a black box instead of Nintendo's usual white packaging.

Siliconera is showing packshots of the CERO B rated Super Street Fighter IV 3D which carries the standard white packaging and the CERO D rated Splinter Cell 3D which is packaged in black.

The first Wii game to be packaged in black in Japan was Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.

By Ewan Aiton