Update: A number of folks are speculating that the announcement will be Monster Hunter 3DS. The game was apparently going to be announced at an event on March 13, but was cancelled due to the situation in Japan. Some believe the game will be revealed at Captivate this week, but I’m personally not too sure that will happen…
Yoshinori Ono made an appearance for the launch of the 3DS in Spain and was able to answer a few questions for the press. The Street Fighter producer was once again asked about the possibility of Street Fighter x Tekken coming to the handheld, but only offered the same information that was provided to Eurogamer. So it’s something that Ono would like to see, though nothing is planned at the moment.
Other than that, Ono teased that a big announcement is on the way. It seems likely that the reveal is 3DS related. Perhaps Capcom will share the announcement during Captivate, which will be taking place in less than two weeks.
Despite the fact that it seems as though Nintendo is always pumping a huge amount of money into research and development (3DS, much?), the company has decided to open a brand new, 150 million dollar R&D facility that will house 1,500 staff and be built much closer to their headquarters in Kyoto.
The goal of the new facility will be to keep their teams much closer together, and allow them to achieve even more innovation than they already have.
“They don’t care if it’s a portable edition. When we say we’re going to release a Street Fighter for launch on 3DS, people are going to expect everything that currently exists for Street Fighter regardless of platform. The efforts put into doing that along with Nintendo engineers who have been working on the operation system in the libraries of the dev kit was difficult. It wasn’t a struggle as such, but it was difficult to meet the launch date with everything implemented so perfectly.” – Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono
I imagine that it would be fairly difficult to port an HD console game to a portable and not lose any of the features that came with. Apparently they did a pretty good job of it though! Anyone out there have anything to say about SSFIV3D?
01. / 00. [PSP] Final Fantasy IV: Complete Collection (Square Enix) {2011.03.24} – 104.173 / NEW
02. / 01. [PS3] Dynasty Warriors 7 (Koei Tecmo) {2011.03.10} – 36.548 / 357.113 (-46%)
03. / 00. [3DS] Gundam: The 3D Battle (Bandai Namco) {2011.03.24} – 23.500 / NEW
04. / 02. [PSP] Dissidia: 012 (Duodecim) Final Fantasy (Square Enix) {2011.03.03} – 21.741 / 403.912 (-30%)
05. / 05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (Capcom) {2010.12.01} – 16.444 / 4.401.653 (+11%)
06. / 03. [3DS] Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle (Level 5) {2011.02.26} – 16.294 / 242.649 (-12%)
07. / 04. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity (Sega) {2011.02.24} – 14.403 / 300.418 (-11%)
08. / 06. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends (Nintendo) {2011.02.26} – 13.219 / 160.742 (-10%)
09. / 07. [PSP] SD Gundam G Generation: World (Bandai Namco) {2011.02.24} – 10.160 / 283.802 (-29%)
10. / 11. [NDS] Pokemon Black / White (Pokemon Co.) {2010.09.18} – 10.025 / 5.127.678 (+16%)
11. / 00. [PSP] Gakuen Hetalia Portable (Idea Factory) {2011.03.24} – 9.729 / NEW
12. / 08. [PS3] Way of the Samurai 4 (Spike) {2011.03.03} – 9.153 / 110.483 (-34%)
13. / 13. [WII] Donkey Kong Country Returns (Nintendo) {2010.12.09} – 8.526 / 859.865 (+14%)
14. / 14. [WII] Wii Party (Nintendo) {2010.07.08} – 8.450 / 1.829.936 (+19%)
15. / 15. [PSP] Fairy Tail: Portable Guild 2 (Konami) {2011.03.10} – 6.291 / 31.444 (-10%)
16. / 00. [PSP] Classic Dungeon X2 (Nippon Ichi Software) {2011.03.24} – 5.956 / NEW
17. / 16. [NDS] Digimon Story: Super Xros Wars – Blue / Red (Bandai Namco) {2011.03.03} – 5.812 / 57.676 (+3%)
18. / 27. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) {2008.04.10} – 5.762 / 3.186.971
19. / 12. [3DS] Samurai Warriors: Chronicles (Koei Tecmo) {2011.02.26} – 5.641 / 106.059 (-32%)
20. / 26. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) {2009.12.03} – 5.574 / 4.253.995
Brawl Brothers (Virtual Console: JALECO, Super Nintendo, 800 Wii Points)
GO Series: Captain Sub (DSiWare: Gamebridge, 200 Nintendo DSi Points)
These are the only games that will definitely be hitting the European shops this week. However, we’ll let you know if additional titles are revealed.
3DS – 50,710
PSP – 50,479
PS3 – 28,973
Wii – 11,808
DSi LL – 9,760
DSi – 8,604
Xbox 360 – 1,963
PS2 – 1,862
DS Lite – 730
PSP go – 616
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week.
3DS – 61,394
PS3 – 26,623
PSP – 22,911
Wii – 9,724
DSi LL – 7,452
DSi – 6,513
PS2 – 1,638
Xbox 360 – 1,619
DS Lite – 625
PSP go – 600
