Here's the thing that has me excited (from Wired:)
Satoru Iwata, worldwide president of Nintendo, will deliver a keynote address at this year's Game Developers Conference.
The topic of Iwata's speech will be "Discovering New Development Opportunities." Iwata has keynoted GDC twice before, and both addresses have brought with them some moderately important announcements about the company's future. In 2005, Iwata showed new footage of the then-in-development Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, then announced that online gaming would come to the DS. In 2006, he showed off the first footage of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass among other announcements.
Look for Iwata's address to attempt to bring even more developers into the Wii fold. Nintendo hasn't been entirely successful at convincing gamemakers to put their best effort into creating Wii games, so this year's speech -- Iwata's first since the launch of Wii -- will likely be aimed at energizing the packed crowd into wanting to work alongside Nintendo.
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If the last two times Iwata has given the keynote address at GDC he showed off stuff from unreleased Zeldas then there is at least a glimmer of hope that the new Zelda Wii game will at least be announced and we might see screen shots, if not a trailer. Maybe the new "hint system" will tie into the "New Development Opportunities" or maybe he'll talk about how Nintendo has expanded the market and show off Wii Sports Resort some more.... we can only hope for the best.
