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Satoru Iwata to deliver GDC 2009 keynote

by Ross Miller on Jan 27th 2009 1:57PM

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata will be putting his oratorical skills to the test, delivering a keynote entitled "Discovering New Development Opportunities" at this year's Game Developers Conference. There are no other details provided, and trying to discern any surprise announcements based on that speech title is pretty much a fruitless endeavor.

Iwata last gave a GDC keynote in 2006, when he showed Brain Age and Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Company man Miyamoto gave the 2007 speech and revealed ... the Everybody Votes Channel. As for last year, the House of Mario's presence was limited to a handful of sessions. Get your bingo cards ready, Iwata's keynote is set for Monday, March 25 at 9 a.m. PST (that's noon, Joystiq Standard Time).

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Tags: DS, game-developers-conference, gdc, gdc-2009, iwata, nintendo, satoru-iwata, Wii

Reader Comments (33)

I pray this means something interesting will be announced...my Wii needs some love.

...oh the jokes I know I'm going to get for that.

It's fun to play with your Wii.

too easy!

I stopped hoping for Nintendo to deliver after E3. I'm done wasting my time, maybe I'll pay attention again when they release something worth playing.

I fear that "Discovering New Development Opportunities" will mean to develop even more casual (casualier?) games by tapping even deeper into the non-game-playing-demographic than ever before.

Possible entries:

Wii Paint by Numbers.
Wii Connect the Dots.
Wii Poo (designed to track bowel movements and provide tips on how to maintain regular BM`s)
Wii Calculate (A calculator for the calculation of mathematical calculations)
And some other fifth thing.

The fifth thing is Wii Sutra. It involves the balance board.

I'd totally buy Wii Poo, but I think it would be a better fit on the DS.

Do you think they can tap deeper with the Wii!?

I'd buy like....10 damn copies of Mario Paint for the Wii.

Don't bash the paint, natch.

I'm still the fly swatting king

I lost faith to Nintendo's conferences.

In fact, I lost faith to Nintendo Co.

Where's that picture from? That looks like a VTA bus, showing some San Jo pride?

The picture is from another GDC a few years back.

My guess is talk of business as usual with maybe one little surprise......MAYBE........

Why put the effort into scrolling up when I can see a stupid fucking comment right here? :)

Sorry dude, I didn't know that was you.

There's no way in hell he'll top the "Everybody Votes Channel" announcement.

March 25th isn't on a Monday? So is it Monday the 23rd..... or Wednesday the 25th?

That "loser" you speak of just happens to be one of many loyal Ninty fans who still has faith in the company.

That or he probably shops at the same hot topic as me...

Oh yes, let's put all sorts of stock into what is supposed to be an event for game developers, not a forum for the media

Although they did unveil their DLC purchasing model last year, so you could see something like that in the sense of features, but begging for the big, epic software title (especially from Nintendo) is going to lead to disappointment, and then more of these fair-weather Nintendo fans talking about "losing faith"

Plus the fact that it is an old pic

But it still reflects the desires of many Nintendo fans. See, we're not all stupid enough to get caught up in the internet's witch-hunt and overreaction to the last E3, and we're not stubborn enough to have totally ignored the fall media conference, and continually deny it's significance

"Discovering New Development Opportunities" eh? How about opening up WiiWare and DSiWare to more developers. Like the ones that, you know, don't rent out an office building or haven't previously released a game before. Actually opening up for and embracing independent homebrew developers instead of shutting them down and locking them out at every turn. I would love to see something akin to Microsoft's XNA Creators Club. That'd be nice.

Bob, is that you??

Sorry. Afraid not. I just like homebrew and the idea of running it and developing it without the need for pirate equipment, downgraded firmware, or special hacks. If the Big N would offer a legitimate way for garage developers and students to tinker with their hardware, I'd be a happy camper.

OMG KID ICARUS

Iwata is the only Exec left at Nintendo that hasn't completely embarrassed the company on stage . . . yet.

Holy crap, this should be very interesting, from a development standpoint (remember, it is the GAME DEVELOPER'S Conference, people).

http://cubetoons.aforumfree.com/users/57/18/23/album/lol_fa10.png

I believe that image describes this news.

Mr. Khan, we aren't all as stupid as you insinuate when we look at three consoles on the shelf and go to play the one with the most engrossing games, and then notice we have not picked the wii in that scenario for a long time. Internet witch hunts have nothing to do with it for me.

Right, Duke, i never said you were. I've always respected your opinion, and those of many on this site who don't particularly care for Nintendo, because they pursued it from a rational point of view. It was targeted at those "Oh fuck you Nintendo you traitorous bastards" people who were making such a big show of it after E3 and beyond. The people who were so quick to shout doom and gloom to the world. Those are the idiots.

What would it be?

A real console?
A real new handheld?
A real game?

More likely another piece of worthless spastic plastic tied to a dumb 2 mins game which a lazy teenager made in 3 hours and sold for an attractive price of 249.99 USD. On sale today!

I don't agree with your "A real console?" question, but you have to be fucking kidding me with the "A real handheld?" one. Seriously? The only console to rival the software library of the DS is the SNES and maybe the PS2.

really? A teenager you say? Well in that case, I expect you ramp up production to 1 Wii every 2 hours. Also, I'm docking your pay.

The part where noamkot discovered that the word "spastic" rhymes with "plastic" was the most witty and intelligent part of his entire comment. Unfortunately, that's not saying much, as he still fails at trolling Joystiq.

All I want to hear about is Zelda -- if he doesn't say ANYTHING about Zelda, then don't bother to say anything at all.

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