Assassin's Creed: Revelations gained many of its concepts from a cancelled exclusive Nintendo 3DS title, Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy. The game was announced at Nintendo's E3 2010 press conference in June, and was cancelled three months later, with Ubisoft's chief financial officer Alain Martinez stating that Ubisoft felt the console had enough "hardcore" games. The story of the cancelled title revolved around Ezio visiting Masyaf. Lead writer Darby McDevitt stated that the idea "morphed" into Revelations.