Dragon Ball Z, One Piece Games Will Let You Play With Those in the Other Game

The upcoming release of One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum might be reason to bring out a copy of 2015's Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden.

Great Pirate Colosseum launches later this month in Japan. Come November, an update will be released for it and Extreme Butoden that adds support for multiplayer between the two 3DS games, report Gematsu and Siliconera.

This feature supports both local and online multiplayer and allows you to mix characters from the two fighting games. Bandai Namco, the publisher of both games (which are developed by Arc System Works), describes this as a "cross-versus" mode. More details are set to be announced prior to the update's release in early November.

Extreme Butoden released in North America, Europe, and Australia last October, about four months after it debuted in Japan. As of yet, Great Pirate Colosseum has not been announced for a release in the West. There have been handheld One Piece games in the past that never made it out of Japan, so it's possible this feature is something we'll never get our hands on. If that changes, we'll report back.