Aux dernières nouvelles Ninja Gaiden Sigma devait sortir vers Mars 2007 au Japon. Aujourd'hui nous n'avons pas de confirmation, il ne nous reste plus qu'à espérer que le territoire européen ne sera pas oublié par cette sortie éventuellement proche. Au programme de ces scans: de l'action, encore de l'action et du style. Les ennemis et boss sont déjà connus des joueurs du premier épsisode X-Box mais des "petits" nouveaux pourraient s'incruster et poser problème, prenez garde. Des nouvelles de Ninja Gaiden Sigma bientôt sur PlayFrance!
 
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1UP: What's taking the most work in bringing Ninja Gaiden to PS3?
 
YH: The PS3 has very unique architecture, so there's a lot of work that goes into making sure you optimize the game so it runs best on that architecture. But we're past the point of studying the hardware. Now we know how everything works, so it's about implementing each feature to use the machine to its fullest.
 
1UP: Since you worked on Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden Black on Xbox, now that you've had some time to familiarize yourself with the Cell processor and its multiple pipelines and the stuff you've got to work with, do you see any advantages in bringing this to the PS3? Does it help with enemy AI, or graphics processing, or anything specific?
 
YH: One important thing about the PS3 is the seven SPUs in addition to the main processor, and using those is what allows you to get the best graphic quality. So we have an entire section of programmers which is assigned to figure out how to get those SPUs working on graphics to the fullest. Now we're actually at the point where day-to-day you can see the graphic quality improve before your eyes, so to speak. So if you look at the screenshots we have for you today -- if you look at those compared to what we put out at TGS, there's a big difference in terms of the textures and the atmosphere. You can see the steps we've made since then.

The game is currently 35% completed, user can run around all levels
The developers studied beyond the PS3 hardware, now they understand how everything functioned and how to use each desired characteristic  
In order to use the hardware fully, one has to program the 7 SPUs (Synergistic Processing Units) in the cell chip.  
It's important to find out how to use SPUs for graphics completely, they are seeing daily graphic improvements.
The build from today looks noticeably better than the TGS version  
Currently 50% of their new ideas are put into the game, and the other 50% are things that were not realized in the predecessors.
For example there is a scene where helicopters circle in the sky and throwing bombs toward the city, it was not realized in the Xbox version due to hardware restriction  
It is possible to use projectile weapons like bow and arrows in mid-air  
All textures used in the PS3 version are completely new.
Some existing puzzles are revised to be more intuitive and natural  
You play about 20% of time with Rachel  
The game is a completely new generation and no extra games like the NES Ninja Gaiden Trilogy were added  
The game will support 720p, this is the most optimal resolution, because there are too much borders in 1080p.