Delighted to note that 1UP has conjured up an interview with Treasure president Masato Maegawa, talking to the long-time indie Japanese console dev about their new projects.

He chats a little about the Xbox 360 game that the developer is creating - publisher as yet unknown, but might be Microsoft - and when asked if it's a topdown shooter, confirms: "Yeah. We'll use really great 3D graphics but it will retain the 2D gameplay people love." Maegawa also comments: "We're definitely thinking of this being a retail title. We actually want to do something else for Live Arcade, too. Personally, I'm really interested in Live Arcade, and I really want to do something for it - but it depends on whether it'll make sense to do another completely original project just for that."

Talking about the possibility of Sin & Punishment on Virtual Console, yum: "Ah yes, it was on the Virtual Console list that Nintendo released a while back. They are planning to put it out on VC at some point, but it's probably going to be a while still. It's really up to Nintendo in terms of how they want to stagger things out - they could probably put 1,000 games on there tomorrow if they wanted, but obviously they don't want to do that."