The Witcher 3 Polish Language Pack DLC Is Now Available On Switch

Wait, it wasn’t there from the start? Of all the games I would expect this one to have Polish support day one.
Also when will Nintendo of Europe finally notice Eastern Europe?

This game has quite the polish now

Polished to a sheen.

CD projekt RED is one of the few major developers and publishers that actually gives a damn about it's customers.

I'm Polish and confused, was it not available for everyone before?

This has been availble for a long time. Why is this news ? Hmm

Regarding language packs... let me tell you my story about the - truly beloved - witcher 3 switch version... I am hungarian curently living in Canada. I purchased the boxed north American version 4 months ago and to my surprise the superb hungarian subtitles were included to this version. I put 40-50 hours into the game until 3.6 patch arrived that put the graphics of the game to another level. Yes! But! The hungarian subtitles disappeared...
I contacted customer support and they appologused saying that the hungarian option shouldn’t have been included in the first place... because I’m still using the european nintendo account I thought... okay... this is a downer but... you know... this is the witcher... so I purchased the online shop version aaaand: yesss the superb hungarian subtitles were included!!! But... it turned out that the save files - not even the nintendo cloud ones - are not compatible...

But If I made it so far... there is no turning back. The 3.6 version supports steam cross save so here is the option.. I just have to purchase the witcher 3 for the 3rd time and finally I can continue playing the game that I by the way already own for the ps4...

I just like to ask CD project red to do some charity with all of my unnecessarily purchased copies if possible... cheers!

It wasn't available to everyone, no. If you bought a physical copy of the game in Poland or a digital copy on the Polish eShop, then you had access to Polish audio and subtitles. All or nearly all other regions didn't. The language situation in general has been shockingly bad and I'm glad to see some action being taken now.

Everybody loves this Polish publisher for the love and user-friendliness they put into their products - but the language (subtitle) situation of this game is baffling.

I'm from Hungary and I'm not sure which version to buy because forums are full of people who bought the physical version in Hungary, but it didn't have Hungarian subs - yet others had them.
I mean, what can be so hard about making all available subtitles... available to all?

Just read my comment pal

Which country eShop did you buy from? Was it Hungary?

Europe has five different download versions scattered around different places.

AURVA in Poland, Hungary (this has English/Polish audio)
AURVB in Russia (this has English/Russian audio)
AURVC in most of Europe (this has English/French audio)
AURVD in Germany (this has English/German audio)
AURVG in Bulgaria, Romania (this has English audio)

If the Hungarian eShop version has Hungarian subtitles, that would be the AURVA version, so the carts marked AURVA would have them too.

@SmaggTheSmug I met my (Polish) wife ten years ago. When I first went to Poland back then, Nintendo was non-existent.

Now, Nintendo is aggressively marketing itself in Poland. TV ads, posters and yes, I bought my Switch in Poland.

Poland is currently Xbox country and that is going to take a lot to change. But I’ll give credit where it’s due, Nintendo has been aggressively pushing itself in Poland since the Switch launched.

@naxuu
Hm ok. Has been availble in Norway eshop for a long time. Glad more ppl can accsess it now 😊

Oh lovely! Used to play the old games with Polish voice acting and English subs.
The first Witcher game has awful English voice acting, just awful. But the Polish voice acting is really good. So Polish dubs with English subs is the best way to play for sure.
The Witcher 2 has good English dubs, though. But I find that the Polish dubs adds a certain charm, making the game world feel a little more exotic.
Looking forward to replaying Witcher The Third with Polish voices when I find the time.

It would be nice if Nintendo finally noticed the Polish language at all. Funny fact - on Nintendo Switch there are already more than 100 games containing Polish language. In the description on the eShop, none of these titles contain information about the fact that the game actually contains Polish. Probably the same goes for Czech, Slovakia and others central/west european countries.

@charlieonholiday Poland is PS4 country. A lot more Sony stuff is selling than Microsofts.

@charlieonholiday I have a very similar story but I lived in Poland 12- 15 years ago. During the Wii/DS era Nintendo was present in stores like Empik and MediaMarkt (especially DS). It was during the Wii U era that it practically disappeared from stores (the 3DS appeared but was gone from nearly all retail shortly afterwards).

It’s funny, there’s a guy on YouTube called Adam Koralik who does videos about games and he actually visited Poland a few years back and talked about the complete lack of Nintendo. He pointed out that there was only one product in the stores (literally one product) a boxed set of Disney infinity for Wii U. I messaged him that I had literally just seen the very same boxed set in the same shop a few months later; it was still there!

Now Nintendo is back, but Xbox and PlayStation are far more dominant. Switch seems easy to find though. Pity the prices are roughly the same, so no cheap games for me when I’m on holiday there...

@bluesun this is a crazy solution from cd p r

Yek’Shamesh! Great success!

@charlieonholiday Not hard enough to bother having a local distributor; Nintendo products in Poland go through Czech Republic. It makes joy con failure a bit more expensive than usual.

@OuTee @Gamecuber
I was not in Poland during the Wii/DS era and I do believe that Nintendo could do a lot more. However, my wife did not know Nintendo when I met her. Now my kids point at the TV when there is a Nintendo ad so at least things are on the up. More importantly you can actually buy Nintendo in the shops - I could not do that pre-Switch!

Are we Switch fans that hungry for Nintendo Direct news that we make a story out of a language pack being released and a big post just about it?

@charlieonholiday I don’t remember any adverts on TV (I didn’t watch much tv when I lived there; a combination of actually having a social life in my 20s and not being brilliant at Polish 😁) but I remember a large number of DS games available.

Actually I’m quite annoyed with myself looking back. I went over there with a Gameboy Advance but totally missed out on getting a DS Lite due to not thinking to check if the DS games were in English (of course they are!) and not realising how good the backwards compatibility on the DS Lite was.

Still, my PS2 did get a lot of play (Resident Evil 4 was particularly moody in a long, dark and extremely cold Polish winter!)

The game now has a Polish language option, but it lacks polish.