- Japanese firm Digital Media Professionals Inc announced that the Nintendo 3DS will adopt its DMP 3D Graphics IP Core PICA200, which features proprietary DMP 3D graphics extensions "Maestro technology", which provides high end naked-eye 3D stereo vision and graphics rendering power whilst maintaining low power consumption.
- Nintendo revealed a new trailer of 3DS, which revealed several NES and SNES classics which will be coming to 3DS with 3D effects, including:
Mega Man 2
Castlevania
Urban Champion
Kid Icarus
Yoshi's Island
Smash Ping Pong - Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros.
Tennis
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Mystery of Murasame Castle
- Capcom said the 3DS version of Resident Evil Revelations is being produced using the MT Framework that powered Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2. The 3DS game will also take advantage of a portable machine.
X B O X 3 6 0
- Square Enix producer Hiromichi Tanaka mentioned that there is no current plans for a Xbox 360 version of the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV. Tanaka said that they are still talking to Microsoft for a possible Xbox 360 version, but right now they are only working on the PS3 and PC version.
- Microsoft plans to offer a Kinect Xbox 360 Bundle Pack in autumn 2010 worldwide, according to an internal marketing report from Microsoft.
M U L T I
- Here are some new images of Compile Heart's PS3 strategy RPG Agarest Senki 2, the game will be released in Q4 2010.
- Hiromichi Tanaka said that Final Fantasy XIV may have PlayStation Move support in future, but currently there have no concrete plans, however they have some very interesting ideas they would like to integrate with the game.
- Koji Igarashi, producer of the Castlevania series, said that Konami is working on more than one Castlevania project currently, besides Castlevania: Harmony of Despair for XBLA. He said he would be happy to make a Nintendo 3DS version of Castlevania.
- Sega mentioned that the XBLA and PSN remake of Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventure will be improved over the original Dreamcast version. Crazy Taxi will have licensed soundtrack from Offspring, Bad Relegion and more, and some places will be removed due to licensing issues, such as Pizza Hut. The Dreamcast original is still playable within the game.
- Sonic Adventure will not have full widescreen option, the game will have vertical bars on both sides of the screen, due to difficulties adjusting the program code to work with widescreen.
- Here are some new images and trailer of Ubisoft's Driver: San Francisco for PS3 and Xbox 360, the game will be released in Q4 2010.
- Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said that Gran Turismo 5 will have night races, variable weather conditions, damage models, stunt areas, go-kart races and track editor in the game.
- Eat Sleep Play's David Jaffe said that his studio has been working on the PS3 car combat game Twisted Metal for 18 months. The game will not have 3-D support, due to the frame rate is slightly below 60fps. The game will not support PlayStation Move either.
- Quantic Dream said further downloadable content for Heavy Rain is indefinitely put on hold, as the focus has been changed to integrate PlayStation Move to the game, which will be released as an update patch, and a new release of the game disc is also planned this fall.
- Sony said that the PlayStation Move has made its first debut in Japan during the World Hobby Fair last week, both EyePet and Kung Fu Rider were playable.
W i i
- Nintendo of America sales and marketing VP Cammie Dunaway said that the Wii Vitality Sensor wasn't shown at E3, the reason was because the circumstances were not suitable at E3, the show was very loud, stressful and full of noises, and the adrenaline level was high on many visitors. Nintendo plans to present the Vitality Sensor at a different time.
P S P
- SCE CEO Kaz Hirai said that there will probably be no 3-D technology in the successor of PSP, because their R&D found that 3-D effect without glasses have limitations and is not as precise as it should be. Hirai also said that he expects the 3-D technology will increase sales of PS3 hardware.
