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Soma on 28 January 2009
celine said:
bardicverse said:

^^^^ I was AT that speech. It was awesome. Everyone was totally shocked to realize he was talking about soft drinks, the laughter was enormous =) That was the speech that made me really respect him

What made me respect him was the 2005 GDC speech.

He spoke like a deveoper at the head of a multibillion dollar company. He show his heart as a gamer.

He explained the revolution.

 

Do you have a link to that? I'd like to read it

 



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celine on 28 January 2009
Soma said:
celine said:
bardicverse said:

^^^^ I was AT that speech. It was awesome. Everyone was totally shocked to realize he was talking about soft drinks, the laughter was enormous =) That was the speech that made me really respect him

What made me respect him was the 2005 GDC speech.

He spoke like a deveoper at the head of a multibillion dollar company. He show his heart as a gamer.

He explained the revolution.

 

Do you have a link to that? I'd like to read it

 

http://cube.ign.com/articles/595/595089p1.html

 



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Soma on 28 January 2009

thanks celine!



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Mr Khan on 28 January 2009

I expect to see a look at motion plus and it's ramifications for blowing Wii development wide open, as well as a hard look at the DSi, which should, in turn, give us a peak at the future of Nintendo consoles

 

It would be nice (but disastrous for Nintendo) if he got on stage and chewed out many of the 3rd parties



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Soma on 28 January 2009
celine said:
Soma said:
celine said:
bardicverse said:

^^^^ I was AT that speech. It was awesome. Everyone was totally shocked to realize he was talking about soft drinks, the laughter was enormous =) That was the speech that made me really respect him

What made me respect him was the 2005 GDC speech.

He spoke like a deveoper at the head of a multibillion dollar company. He show his heart as a gamer.

He explained the revolution.

 

Do you have a link to that? I'd like to read it

 

http://cube.ign.com/articles/595/595089p1.html

 

 

I just read it and..... absolutely EPIC speech! WOW! Just WOW!



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damkira on 29 January 2009

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.