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Moledina Recommends Nintendo's GDC Keynote
by Rob Galbreath (03/20/06)


Jamil Moledina, director of the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California, recommended seeing Nintendo's keynote speech this Thursday.

When interviewed by Firing Squad, an online gaming site, Moledina ended the conversation with some insight on the next-generation console companies. "I would strongly recommend attending the two platform keynotes from Sony’s Phil Harrison and Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata," said Moledina. "Trust me!"

Nintendo Co., Ltd President Satoru Iwata will be speaking on behalf of Nintendo at GDC 2006. The keynote, entitled "Disrupting Development", is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. PST and set to run for an hour and a half.

According to the GDC Web site, Iwata "will reveal the backstory of how a string of recent disruptive products from Nintendo—the Nintendo DS, the 'brain-training' games, and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection—surprised the market. He will share his thoughts on the role Nintendo’s video game systems will play in expanding the market and widening the possibilities for developers."

Though no information is promised to be revealed about Nintendo's next console, code-named Nintendo Revolution, several gaming analysts indicated that Nintendo may decide to disclose details before revealing the bulk of information at Electronic Entertainment Exposition, known as E3, this upcoming May. Nintendo representatives promised that nearly all information regarding the Revolution will be unveiled at that time.

Moledina said the Game Developers Conference "started as a gathering of programmers in pioneer developer Chris Crawford’s living room in 1987. The show started with the name 'Computer Game Developers Conference,' and grew in size, changed ownership, moved to different cities, and also grew in scope to cover the entire industry. Today, the GDC is the largest event in the world dedicated to game creation, with over 12,000 attendees last year."

The official GDC 2006 Web site can be found here. Revolution Report's Aaron Canaday will be attending Iwata's keynote address and reporting on site.


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thursdayton?

Quote:The keynote, entitled "Disrupting Development"

Ha!

how does that warrant a ha?

'disruptive' is the term they're using that's actually a real business term that Apple looooves using. It means you dont evolve with the industry you're in, you create somethinng completely different that forms its own industry.

Disrupting - Interrupting or impeding the progress

Arrested - To stop

Hmm!

Okay, so now there's multiple sources claiming rev details at GDC, including Matt 'Drama Queen' Cassawhatever and other people involved with the GDC.

It will be this thursday at 10:30 in San Jose california, so adjust for your time zone so you can watch it live. I dunno who's going to have free streaming GDC cams but usually there are some sites with atleast low quality free cams. However, Joystiq will be there and will be updating on the fly as it happens, expect them to have the news up first, videos, pics etc.

It's hard to spend an entire hour and a half talking about the industry, Nintendo's goals and Zelda TP. So here's my predictions for what will happen. keynote will be boring and dull as always, engrish will ensue and people will complain about lack of subtitles. Nintendo will show huge profit gains, talk about upcoming DS titles (new Super Bros, and some new ones we havent seen yet) and then officially mentionn tthat TP is Nintendo's last game for GC as they put all their eggs in to the revolution basket. New video of Zelda TP will be shown, but this time one off two things will happen - The video will show a game player in a living room playing Zelda with the revcon, OR the video will end and a real time demonstration of Zelda with the revcon will commence, complete with boring engrish commentary. When all is said and done, Nintendo will say thank you for attending, see you E3, and oh btw here's a 30 second video of revolution games. Wee yourself now.



THURSDAYTON

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omg you're such a dork, you took a completely vague reference and ran with it and you didn't even explain yourself and now it's funny: ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, LOSER.

If there is a video clip shown at GDC with Revolution games, here is IGN's 'confirmed games in development' list to give us an idea of what we'll see.

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Nintendo first and second party titles
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Super Smash Bros. Online

Super Mario Revolution

Legend of Zelda Revolution

Animal Crossing Revolution

Mario Kart Revolution

Metroid Prime 3

Donkey Kong Title

Battalion Wars Online YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 TBA N-Space Titles (creators of Geist)

TBA Camelot RPG

'Revolution Cooking game'

New IP from Miyamoto

lazy's Guess - F-Zero Title

lazy's Guess - Earthbound Revolution

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Third Party Exclusive Titles (unless noted)
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2 Activision TBA titles (rumor: Spiderman, Tony Hawk)

Atlus - Trauma Center Revolution

2 AQ Interactive TBA titles ('action title', 'comic license')

Blitz Games project TBA (Makers of Possessed)

Capcom multiple projects TBA (including Grasshopper studios, Killer7)

Midway TBA title (rumor: racing)

Electronic Arts Projects TBA (shit on a shingle, poop, waste of money)

Natsume TBA title (rumor: Harvest Moon)

NTREEV Soft - Pangya Golf (multiconsole)

THQ project, Cars (Disney/Pixar)

Sega Projects multiple TBA titles (rumor: NiGHTs, Sonic, etc)

Squeenix - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals Online

Ubisoft FPS TBA (guess)

If you assume that 'multiple projects' means 2 titles, and if you assume that these are all launch games, that's a total of 33 games confirmed in development to ship with Revolution. some companies like Sega, EA, etc, expressed interest in up to 5 games, we could be looking at a launch with 40 games to choose from, not to mention any 'secret' titles. If i put on my patented 'realistic assumption' helmet, I see a launch of about 15 to 20 games, each representing a different genre and game type.

I had no idea that Kuju blatetly announced development on BW2, that is so fucking awesome. God I hope its a launch title.

"Something might happen at some point that may interest you."

It's true! Something did happen that interested me! Nintendo is psychic!

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you mean the exec who operates GDC is psychic! just a few minutes go, I started to masturbate, but then i decided to make coffee!

HALLELUJA

rotflmao!!!!!!1 oh holy krap that's my desktop now

Yay! The person who runs GDC says that we should pay attention to what is happening at his event!

... why am I sceptical that there will be truly important announcements, again? :)

Good point :D

So long as he doesn't hide everything in "a box" and shows only a big moniter with what they would LIKE to do, while claiming it's all actual IN the box they won't show us, but promising the box IS doing all the grahical work by spinning it around so we can be sure there are no "hidden compartments" or wires and then having his assistent ask a member of the audience to go and check it out.

That's actually what I've seen happen in videos of "perpetual motion machines". They run a magic show and convince people to give them money for it. All well and good if they admit it's a trick, but in the form of deception, there's a problem.

in other words, what Sony did with the Killzone 2 video? i dont think Nintendo would be that stupid, remember their spaceworld demo that showed Metroid Prime, waverace, etc? the video actually looked exactly like the games with some added motion blur and obvious 'pre-rendered' smoothnessity and even said right before the video that it's all pre-rendered but a good example of what the games will look like. Nintendo knows not to jerk off the public.

hell in the case of the Link Vs. ganon video, the game actually looks better than the pre-rendered video.

Yep, Melee Link and Ganon looked a lot better. Wind Waker was in a totally different art style so it's hard to accuratly judge.

However, yes, that sort of "magic trick" thing is what I'm talking about. The problem is how easy it is to pull off that sort of magic trick. Stick a DVD player in a fancy box and unless you can open up the box you can't really verify what's going on, and further, they CAN prerender a scene without that "smoothiness" to make it more believable. If a company wanted to, they could lie to a lot of people. Unfortunatly, breaking trust to the degree I describe would result in a lot stronger skepticism on the part of the gaming public, calling for evidence of any claims that a system can do such and such and holding a position of disbelief until such evidence is presented. The technical demo would become useless unless press were allowed to actually open up and examine the inside of the tech demo system.

That said, I hold a position of doubt whenever I can't see the system the demo is supposedly running on. So far I don't have much cause to go beyond that, and I hope no company takes the step that makes further evidence needed.

Sony already made a major announcement recently, I don't see them making another one so soon... and I really think Nintendo is saving most of its secrets for E3. Oh, we might well hear a few things, but I'm not expecting anything REALLY great.

Secret: The Revolution is the Monolith that, when exposed to the human of your choice, causes an item evolution into Q!

That's a 3 way nerd reference!

*head explodes*

like i said the the most i'm hoping for is a 30 second video clip, a teaser trailer of Revolution games. Like here's Link on GC.... and here, standing in a black room, motionless is the same Link model with the number of polys, textures and effects that the Rev can do. SHOCK and AWE.and then it moves around, drawing its sword! And then a music-video like thing, set to death metal, showing rev games in the 'still in production' phase, where everything is wire framed but already looks really cool and Miyamoto is wearing the C-3P0 outfit and what's this??? FACTOR 5 IS BACK??? AND WHAT'S THIS??? IS THAT ALEX ROIVAS???? WHAT IS SHE HOLDING IS THAT A REVCON????? OH FUCK....

i'm so fucking tired of waiting. come on Nintendo.... you need.... come on.... just..... why is......

*runs away crying*

in about 11 hours....

Something might happen....

at some point.....

that may interest you.....

la de da

lmao

well it'll be starting any minute now or already has started, news should start pretty soon. take a look at http://www.joystiq.com for quick updates. here's a weird picture showing the size of the DS compared to revolution's new size, talk about small!



I wanna make a witty joke about Japan having Small Hardware but I think i'll save it for the micro projectors coming out next year.

RUMOR, SPECULATION and NOT CONFIRMED, but Nintendo Go is prominently displayed here along with the japanese text which has been translated. Go, in japanese, means "5", as in, Nintendo's 5th console. but is this the console name, or the name of Nintendo's network (renamed from "Nintendo Wi-Fi")? we'll find out today AT SOME POINT.

translated japanese text:

Engadget Japan editor Ittousai let us know that there's too little information to tell exactly what's going on here, but the text contains fragments like "the brand (reflects)," "contains system-level," and "-technology in latest info." Well, at least we know it's not completely fake Japanese.

Nintendo's Mambo #5??

Game|Life

Zelda DS?!

The event over, this thread now dies, to it's life, that in its end, i offer the following:

Something happened at some point that interested all of us.

rest now, dear thread.

*flashback montage of the above posts played to Final Countdown*

A few things happened that interested me.

So... That was it?

Zelda DS, Genesis and Tubrografix games, and indie games downloadable through the virtual console isn't at least somewhat exciting?

Well we already knew that they were making a Zelda DS game (but that video was pretty interesting).

The rest was exciting. But really, was that IT? Just... excitement at very compelling announcements?

It was GDC not E3.

yeah MS and Microsoft didnt even bother to give the press anything. Unless you like ducks, or realistic oil drum movement.