Tue, Mar 24, 2009 | 20:08 GMT
GDC: Report – Iwata to announce new Wii, WiiWare and VC games in keynote
Hot dog. 1UP’s Sam Kennedy reckons Satoru Iwata’s going to announce “quite a few” new games in his GDC keynote tomorrow.
In terms of highlights coming out of this show, I’d say Nintendo’s Iwata keynote is the one that you’ll really want to watch (Jeremy will be live blogging it tomorrow morning). I thought he was just going to be talking about Motion Plus and DSi, but it turns out he’s going to be announcing quite a few new games — for Wii, Wiiware, and Virtual Console (and this won’t just be Nintendo titles, but also third party stuff). I’ve already heard about a few of them (including one that makes me all giddy… I can’t wait for tomorrow now).
IGN said today that press are being restricted from filming after the first five minutes of the speech, which certainly indicates we’re about to see far more than a MotionPlus display.
Remember: we’ll be liveblogging it. It starts at 9.00am PST, or 4.00pm GMT if you’re on the other side of the Atlantic.
26 comments
#1
Patrick Garratt
24/03/09, 8:09 pm
This is so fucking ON.
#2
Cort
24/03/09, 8:12 pm
Knitting Mama FTW!
#3
Shatner
24/03/09, 8:18 pm
wallpapertraininglol
#4
XDamage
24/03/09, 8:20 pm
Cooking Nintendogs?
#5
Cort
24/03/09, 8:22 pm
Monkey Tennis.
#6
Patrick Garratt
24/03/09, 8:25 pm
Wii Sit.
#7
Cort
24/03/09, 8:32 pm
Dr Kawashima’s Breathing Training.
#8
Cort
24/03/09, 8:33 pm
Bundled with….
Dr Kawashima’s How Long Is Your Index Finger?
#9
Hero of Canton
24/03/09, 8:51 pm
If he announces a new Zelda with that patented hint system, expect righteous fury from people claiming it’s been ‘dumbed down’.
That said, who’s to say this is definitely true? Have we seen much ‘cool stuff’ from MS yet today?
#10
Cort
24/03/09, 9:01 pm
Trust someone to come along with a sensible post…….
#11
icastflare
24/03/09, 9:12 pm
THIS IS SO BOSS I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW what’s the new Hint System?
#12
Shatner
24/03/09, 9:43 pm
whateveritisithinkyoullLOVEIT!!!lol
#13
Shatner
24/03/09, 9:44 pm
getyourkleenexreadylol
#14
icastflare
24/03/09, 9:46 pm
I already came actually but I still have a box of kleenex just incase it happens again.
#15
Shatner
24/03/09, 9:51 pm
paceyourself.youdontwanttobeallspentbefore4pmtomorrowdoyoulol
#16
Hero of Canton
24/03/09, 10:01 pm
How long are you planning on keeping up this ridiculous charade, out of interest?
#17
Shatner
24/03/09, 10:20 pm
untilbillgatesreturnsmycallslol
#18
icastflare
25/03/09, 7:29 am
Hero of Canton!
Firefly!
WOOT!
#19
Blerk
25/03/09, 8:21 am
Every time something like this gets rumoured for a Nintendo keynote it turns out to be something completely shit. And yet… everyone continues to get excited every time.
“This time…! This time it will be real! This time it won’t just be two hours of talking about a dog and then an announcement of some old stuff rehashed! THIS TIME!”
My bet is SNES games redone to take advantage of the Wiimote.
#20
Hero of Canton
25/03/09, 8:26 am
Heh. Wouldn’t put it past them.
#21
JesteR
25/03/09, 8:35 am
Wow Nintendo releasing another new useless hardware? A new Wii? Well when the games suck you have to get attention with something else i guess.
#22
Tonka
25/03/09, 8:46 am
I’m with Blerk.
#23
Blerk
25/03/09, 8:47 am
He is, too.
/hugs Tonka
#24
Tonka
25/03/09, 8:58 am
Gets all warm.
#25
Hero of Canton
25/03/09, 9:10 am
Yeah, I’d be tempted to file this alongside all the ‘really cool stuff’ we saw from Microsoft yesterday.
#26
Blerk
25/03/09, 9:13 am
Well, Microsoft’s ‘cool stuff’ turned out to be a blue 360. So… multi-coloured Wiis?