Soma Bringer 3DS? That wouldn't be such a bad idea... except they never localized the damn game. I understand it's probably because of the lack of online for that particular title, but still... such a strong single player campaign mode, and yet they were worried the multiplayer won't make it sell it enough.
Anyways, let's see. Who knows, maybe they'll decide to do another free-roaming open world RPG on the 3DS, like Xenoblade's little brother (spinoff, but a proper one).
i need this! its obviously going to be an rpg, but will it have free roaming?
the 3DS can totally do free roam, but it wouldn't have a very large drawing distance. just look at some of the maps in Samurai Warriors, with all gates opened, it's fairly large and without dashing would probably take a bit of romping to explore it all. Of course, Hyrule Field in Zelda3D is another good example, and that one has good draw distance as well.
I think with enough work put into it, it could probably do Shadow of the Colossus size maps (especially seeing how sparse the population of that game is, it would probably be easy). I suppose the less active objects in it, the farther the draw distance it can do.