Tuesday 27 January 2009

Nintendo President Iwata Will Keynote GDC

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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 la

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