Topic: GDC 2009

[BeautifulShy]

I'm kinda surprised there isn't a topic about this.G4 will be televising the event come Monday and will run through Friday.If you don't get a chance to watch it on TV then check out G4TV.com for details.

There is a certain rumor going around about some Nintendo characters showing up but I'm really not inclined to believe it.

Is any staff going to cover this event?

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/694187/G4-Presents-Wall-to-Wall-GDC-Coverage.html


    G4 is also the only place on television where fans can see the 9th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards in a half-hour special airing Friday, April 10 at 6:30PM ET/PT.

    Check out what we have in store for you on G4tv.com:

        * Live-blogging
        * Videos
        * Photos
        * Round-up reports from the biggest GDC panels
        * Hands-on demos and game previews of the biggest games of the year, including X-Men Origins Wolverine, Wolfenstein, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 1943, Terminator Salvation: The Video Game, Batman Arkham Asylum, The Conduit, Aion, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, Sims 3, GI Joe, Boom Blox Bash Party, InFAMOUS, Fat Princess and Huxley.
        * Extensive coverage on the new Nintendo DSi and DSi Ware and the latest Wii and DS titles
        * The latest news on XNA and Windows 7.
        * Game trailers and gameplay videos in high-definition.
        * And more!

    On the TV side, X-Play's Adam Sessler will walk the show floor, report news directly from Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata’s GDC 09 keynote presentation, and speak to other special guests such as legendary Metal Gear creator, Hideo Kojima!


there is everything G4 is covering, full story @ the link above.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

G4 has been dropped from several TV provider regions already.

[BeautifulShy]

Well you can watch it online.

[MegaByte]

Chuck and I will be there.

[NWR_pap64]

I'm kinda surprised there isn't a topic about this.G4 will be televising the event come Monday and will run through Friday.If you don't get a chance to watch it on TV then check out G4TV.com for details.

There is a certain rumor going around about some Nintendo characters showing up but I'm really not inclined to believe it.

Is any staff going to cover this event?

There are also the two Nintendo patents that have showed up in the last few months; the Zelda hint system patent and the recently discovered Nintendo Teaching patent.

I think we might see some WiiWare and Motion Plus talk, but I doubt we'll see any major announcements.

[BeautifulShy]

MegaBite that is good to hear.

Pap I just saw your topic about the Nintendo Teaching Topic.
I know Iwata and Kojima are going to be doing keynote addresses.
I think they will show of the DSi and some DSiware titles.Show some of the uses for the DSi.Get some ideas running in Developers heads.I also think Motion+ will be shown off.Maybe Grand Slam Tennis and Red Steel 2.

[BlackNMild2k1]

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/694187/G4-Presents-Wall-to-Wall-GDC-Coverage.html

G4 is also the only place on television where fans can see the 9th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards in a half-hour special airing Friday, April 10 at 6:30PM ET/PT.

Check out what we have in store for you on G4tv.com:

    * Live-blogging
    * Videos
    * Photos
    * Round-up reports from the biggest GDC panels
    * Hands-on demos and game previews of the biggest games of the year, including X-Men Origins Wolverine, Wolfenstein, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 1943, Terminator Salvation: The Video Game, Batman Arkham Asylum, The Conduit, Aion, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, Sims 3, GI Joe, Boom Blox Bash Party, InFAMOUS, Fat Princess and Huxley.
    * Extensive coverage on the new Nintendo DSi and DSi Ware and the latest Wii and DS titles
    * The latest news on XNA and Windows 7.
    * Game trailers and gameplay videos in high-definition.
    * And more!

On the TV side, X-Play's Adam Sessler will walk the show floor, report news directly from Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata’s GDC 09 keynote presentation, and speak to other special guests such as legendary Metal Gear creator, Hideo Kojima!

there is everything G4 is covering, full story @ the link above.

[BeautifulShy]

Thanks BNM for the heads up.
Going by the list BNM posted it looks like there will be some great games being showed for the Wii.The Conduit release date is June 9th. So this should be the second to last major showing of the game.I suspect it will be at E3. Which I think takes place near the begining of June.

[Spinnzilla]

I bet 10 on-rails shooters will be revealed. 

[BeautifulShy]

I don't expect much but it would be nice to be proven wrong.Spinzilla check your PMs.

[BlackNMild2k1]

You can add all that to the OP if you want, someone might skim over it otherwise.

[NWR_pap64]

I bet 10 on-rails shooters will be revealed.

I wonder how long till this meme gets old...

[BeautifulShy]

You can add all that to the OP if you want, someone might skim over it otherwise.

I'll do it tomorrow.I'm kinda lazy right now.

[Stratos]

My over the top hope is that Kid Icarus appears and that it is being worked on by Factor 5 who was secretly bought out by Nintendo.

In all likelihood it will really be announcements of DSi specific software and the edutainment stuff Nintendo has been pushing.

[KDR_11k]

I hope GDC won't be turned too much into a press event, it's supposed to be about development techniques and technologies.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

We're going to see more "me-too" Wii game engines and cross-platform/downporting dev tools this year, huh.

[MegaByte]

I hope GDC won't be turned too much into a press event, it's supposed to be about development techniques and technologies.

Really only the keynotes and such are press events.  There are hundreds of hardcore dev talks.

[BlackNMild2k1]

So what are we expecting out of GDC this year?

Nintendo
DSi talk- pushing the platform and DSiWare
Wii games - PunhOut WiiSPorts Resort & M+
VC - more upcoming platform support, starting with VC for DSi (GB/C. GBA, GG, NGP, WS, G.com)
HDD/SDHC support - what you got is what you get.. :-(
New Wii Colors - please release a Black Wii b4 summer
Addition of Netflix support incoming

Sony
Price Drop Price Drop Price Drop (I know they can't really afford it)
GoW3, FFXIII ... do they have anything else major coming up?
PSP2 - touchscreen support and built in flash drive (no more UMD) & SD card support (hehe yeah right)
Netflix to PSN

Microsoft
Rare has been working on something ...
Halo 3.5, GoW 3,... what else is coming up soon?
New model of 360 coming to market, RRoD is a thing of the past (who am I kidding?)

I'm sure the rest of you can come up with a much better list than the garbage I just typed out.
So, what are all of you expecting/hoping for?

[Morari]

Can we not talk about G4? They ruined TechTV (which was better as ZDTV anyway), and then pretty much gave up on their video game centric programming anyway.

[BeautifulShy]

Morari I was just posting where people can watch it. G4 isn't really the focus of this topic.GDC is.If you don't have anything to add about GDC than don't comment.

[BeautifulShy]

Ok here are my predictons.
Nintendo will show off Motion+,DSiware, Maybe a few game announcements.

[NWR_insanolord]

I still think there's a good chance we're going to get a Wii Sports Resort release date for some time within the next few months.

[BeautifulShy]

Wii Sports Resort will probably get some coverage.I believe.

[BlackNMild2k1]

It better since its supposed to come out b4 E3. Its supposed to launch with M+ and EA has atleast 2 games ready to go in June that are supposed to use it. So if they are gonna talk M+ they are gonna show it off using WiiSports Resort with honorable mentions of probably both TW2010 & GSTennis if not playable demos of all three.

[NWR_pap64]

I'll be surprised if Nintendo doesn't talk about Motion Plus. If they don't it might confirm those delay rumors IGN mentioned.