Metal Gear Solid at E3 on 3DS was a great surprise but unfortunately the game demo we saw remains only that, a demo. It seems Konami are not saying one way or another whether they will commit to a Metal Gear on 3DS but they said feedback from the demo was good and it could happen at some point in the future.
Konami – make it happen!
- Game has lighting effects, shading, but the 3D boosts its graphical appeal
- Good feedback at E3
- What was shown at E3 was a sample
- Konami could still bring it to market, but can’t say one way or the other
- Comments will influence how Metal Gear turns out on 3DS, will help bring it out
- At the moment it’s based on Metal Gear Solid 3
- “Naked” for Naked Snake
- Other aspect for “naked” is for the naked eye, no glasses needed for the 3DS
- Kojima interested in hearing what people think about the game
There is a quote from Konami after the break. Read more…
Kid Icarus was the main game used to show off the 3DS at Nintendo’s E3 conference and it didn’t fail to impress. Director Masahiro Sakurai spoke with techland about the title and had this to say…
TL: Sakurai-san, they kept your presence a big secret but I’m glad that we can get some time together. So let’s start with how long have you been waiting to bring Pit back.
MS: So, the revival of Kid Icarus actually began in Smash Brothers. We brought him back for Smash Brothers and I personally did all that design work. We made a decision to upgrade and re-envision what the character was like with some more current trappings. From that time I certainly had an interest in the franchise. Now this time around, the project actually began with an original game idea, and the match seem to be a good one for the mythology and the character Kid Icarus. So it just so happened that the game idea and the franchise matched in the project then start it from there.
TL: How is Uprising going to incorporate the fiction and the continuity from previous games?
Nintendo likes to gloat once in a while about how much money they are making and it seems like the time once again came in the investors meeting at E3 where they whipped this little graphic out of their sleeves.
As you can see the Wii in North America outsold Xbox 360 and PS3 combined. Funny there’s no stats for Japan or Europe where Wii is not faring so impressively!
It seems like Nintendo’s value during and after E3 has gone up about 17% and financial experts are advising to hold off buying them for now to let the dust settle. Speaking with Industrygamers, the outlook for Nintendo is looking promising overall. Check it out if stocks are your thing!
“Nintendo will benefit from the next product cycle. This does not mean that the road ahead will not be full of potholes. Currency pressures and competition from the likes of Apple could force Nintendo to sell their new 3DS at a lower price than they would have hoped. The stock had a great E3, jumping 17% in one week, so it may not be the wisest move to chase the stock at these levels. The enormous installed base of Wii consoles should help their recently announced first-party titles sell and the 3DS hype machine is just getting started. Nintendo’s wait and see approach to a console with 3DTV support is something that makes them more attractive as well, in case Sony’s strategy is an epic fail.”
Eurogamer managed to grab some time with Nintendo’s Yoshio Sakamoto and Yosuke Hayashi at E3 where they talked Metroid and 3DS. Here’s some excerpts…
Eurogamer: What are those shared goals with Metroid: Other M?
Yoshio Sakamoto: We really wanted to bring new gameplay experiences to this project. We have a lot of communication from Metroid fans, and we know what they want to see. It’s a challenge to pack everything in that they want.
In terms of our ambitions, the best way to put it is to say that we really want to overcome the expectations of game design. While we’re trying to do these things that people have been clamouring for, we also don’t want to do things the way people expect, because then there’s no surprise.
On top of that, we have to make it accessible for anybody to play. As to how this would be manifested in an action game, I should leave that to Mr Hayashi to respond. Certainly, in terms of working on this project, we don’t think of ourselves as Nintendo and Team Ninja anymore. We’re just one team working on this game.
This footage might be brief but it’s better than nothing! Personally I’m looking forward to Paper Mario 3DS as much as anything else that has been shown, but from what has been seen so far there are many 3DS games on my wishlist. I can’t remember any console in history with such good third party support this early and the lineup is looking very tasty indeed!
Sega West’s president Mike Hayes is obviously as impressed with Nintendo’s 3DS unveiling as most of the rest of us are, going on to say that the 3DS “is Nintendo’d brilliance”.
“With the quality of the device they’ve got it’s possible they can expand their audience into an older, broader audience. It was interesting to see games like Saint’s Row on the device. If we could bring, let’s say, a House of the Dead or an Aliens title, if the audience for 3DS is much broader it could give us much more scope in that market, and that’s as exciting as well as Mario & Sonic and Monkey Ball games. The 3DS is Nintendo through and through, this is Nintendo’s brilliance. They’re almost in their own technological world, doing their own thing. Whilst 3D TV is quite an amazing technology advancement, and many companies will get into that, Nintendo will now create this huge business with their own unique piece of technology that very few if any, will be able to copy. That’s Nintendo over and over again, it’s fantastic. For us as a third-party it’s a great leg up in terms of the portable business.”
“Following last week’s announcement that Capcom currently has two titles, Resident Evil: Revelations and Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition (tentative title), in development for the Nintendo 3DS. The first trailer for Resident Evil: Revelations has just been released and is now available for download from our press extranet featuring appearances from Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine the trailer is rendered in real time using the game engine.”
This Google Trends graphic shows that the 3DS was the winner of E3 with loads more searches than Sony’s Move or Microsoft’s Kinect.
This is slightly cheating though as both their hardware has already been seen whereas the 3DS was a brand new unveiling. Even so, it’s good to see 3DS so popular already!
