3DS capable of running version of Resident Evil 5

So far, Capcom has two Resident Evil titles in the works for the 3DS. According to Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono, though, the company also managed to run the fifth game in the franchise on the handheld. Ono was shown a version of Resident Evil 5 running on the 3DS prior to E3:

“The first time I had any kind of contact with the 3DS was shortly before E3 of last year. A couple of weeks before the show I got a call from [Capcom producer] Takeuchi-san, and he said he had something he wanted me to see. So I traveled to Osaka, and he whipped out a 3DS, and it was running a version of Resident Evil 5! And yes I was surprised we could get this kind of power in the palm of your hand, and 3D to boot.

It was almost time for me to go on vacation, part of Japan’s Golden Week series of holidays, but I was inspired to do something new. We started experimenting with the 3DS, threw together a quick build of SSFIV in a couple of weeks and invited Nintendo to come see it. They liked what they saw so much that they wanted to show it at E3 – I wasn’t really feeling that because it wasn’t terribly stable at the time, though I did give them a couple of screens and permission to talk about the game. But yeah, it was very surprising, just how powerful this little machine is.”

It should be noted that, in all likelihood, the Resident Evil 5 3DS demo was most likely a modified version of the game. Nonetheless, it is interesting that it was running on the hardware at all. A few years ago, Masachika Kawata said that the Wii would not even be able to handle RE5’s title screen.