Nintendo Will Attend GDC Europe For The First Time

Hopefully this will help promote the Wii U efficiently.

I expect something will be announced, why turn up somewhere which you haven't been to before without a good reason?

I'm guessing it's to promote their new frameworks to other developers.

If Nintendo just ends up showing the exact same things they showed at E3 at both GDC and Gamescom (which they'll likely do) then.....sigh
We want some new announcements Nintendo.

Perhaps there will be something about the further games we've been told are coming before 2014 that have not been announced yet - or better yet some 3rd party titles that we don't know about yet but are hoping for!

It's time for Nintendo to give us the old Razzle Dazzle.

@Koto Why would they announce games at GDC? It's a game developer conference. They're more likely just going to announce new creation tools and the like for other developers to use (unless they show something that's being built on those tools).

Just so I understand, what is GDC exactly? What do the people who go to it do there? Is it another E3? Is it a place for Indie game designers to pitch their ideas to big companies? I just don't know...

theres something up in their sleeve, i can smell it (wary)

I hope they get some exclusive indie developers while they are there. The best way for Nintendo to set themselves up as different is exclusive indie stuff. If they are reluctant to make new IPs, at least get some good quality indie devs.

If they nabbed someone like Team Meat (or someone with their quality), they would be laughing.

More outreach to developers is always a good thing, especially in this case with many not knowing that Nintendo have made making games more accessible for them.

LordGeovanni.

Just so I understand, what is GDC exactly?

The Game Developers Conference, is just that a conference which features over 400 lectures, panels, tutorials, thay also showcase all of the most relevant game development tools, platforms and services helping to drive the industry forward. It's a professionals-only game industry event, for programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals etc, the topics are taught by leading industry experts.

So, will Nintendo promote their console in this conference so that these developers may develop games for the WiiU and 3DS? That would be nice

@Koto I just checked my wanted list -which does not yet include eshop titles- and I think I could use a break after the upcoming months with Wii U, 3ds and even PS3 must-haves. I just put quite an amount of money down to get some older games across many platforms, to set up a LAN between two Gamecubes, and to buy the recent 3ds must-have games... I'd be happy with a new announcement, don't get me wrong, but I don't NEED one right away

Could they be using it as a platform to show a 6 hour presentation of 'Spin The Botte'?

@SyntheticPerson The actual technical quality of team meat is pretty awful. (I really enjoyed playing Super Meatboy but if the Linux port is anything to go by they are not ever going to produce anything good enough to actually get it to pass quality control. It is still buggy even on Windows. (They cannot even add steam cloud saves to it for some really silly reason). That is the problem the indies that Nintendo seems to like don't produce anything fun enough for me to want to play. XNA is really well designed don't know what Nintendo has I have not seen any of the SDK's.

Nintendo should not go anywhere that EA and Ubisoft are. Konami just seems to get other people to make things that are sometimes good sometimes bad with its characters. (I hate Mirror of Fate - Think Dracula X Chronicles is worse than the original Rondo of Blood. Like Contra 4). Capcom is fairly similar to Konami but has started totally unacceptable stuff with DLC and adware (on ios which doesn't affect me but I still despise it). The Dungeon's and Dragons thing released recently is dire. (I own it on PC).

So in a nutshell its like an E3 conference?

I doubt they're going there to show anything to consumers, but rather to schmooze with developers into coming over to the Nintendo camp. If they're going to show anything, it'll probably be just new trailers for upcoming games...

rlopez1996

So in a nutshell its like an E3 conference?

E3 is nothing like GDC, If you want E3, go play video games at a strip club, but only play for 5 minutes, and wait in line for 3 hours first.
GDC is a place to learn about making games. Some of the most interesting and creative people in the industry, sharing what it is they've learned.

@Ernest_The_Crab
Oh right...then how about Gamescom?

@Koto For Gamescon I suspect it's just going to be release date verifications unless one of their "smaller", unannounced games has a decently close release date to Gamescon.

@Ernest_The_Crab
Hm, makes sense. Thanks for that.

It won't happen, because it is not that type of event, but I hope they announce a new Metroid there.

@Shambo The problem is that they already confirmed most of the games before E3, leaving little room for surprises. If they hadn't already shown most of their cards, they would probably have had a much better reception.

Nintendo putting in work, depending on what they portray at these events it could help improve relations with other publishers and/or developers.

I really love how Nintendo is attending lots of events all of the sudden. It's a really good thing to spread info about their products and hopefully get more people to develop for them.

Nintendo already said there are more games to anounce. and they did not show ''Epic'' Zelda which they almost did at E3. i want to see more from the game Xenoblade from Nintendo-Monolith soft. and they will show a new special character for smashbros, maybe more Mario 3D, pikmin, mariokart, donkey Kong and the new IPS miyamoto was working on etc

GDC will be to encourage developers/Publishers to develop on WiiU by showing off thier development kits/tools and framework, lets hope with some success. Gamescom will be when there will be any game announcments (if there's any to be made).
Its good Nintendo are attending these events though, as it shows the public and industry Nintendo are doing what they can to push the WiiU... even TV advertisments are being shown more often just lately.

I hope they use this opportunity to finally announce the new Zelda game, they said they were going to announce it at E3 but it just wasn't ready yet. So why not announce it now, I mean this is their first time attending this thing....

@b23cdq While I'm not with those complaining E3 was disappointing, there is quite a lot of truth in what you say. More surprises would've been better to balance the hype over ps4 (and xb one... just kidding. The only hype they had was from curious people wanting to know exactly why to definitely NOT get one, as far as I know.) And to me DK:TF looks great, but is not that great a surprise.

I DID shed a tear of joy over Mega Man in Smash Bros. And made a few girly noises and shrieks, I believe. And jumped up from the couch. And played Mega Man Anniversary Collection on my Gamecube afterwards. And... well, that enough about that.

Also, the new trailers for the Platinum Games... games got me hooked, as well as the one from X.

My girlfriend was -and is- pretty excited about the Mario Bros Cat Suit.

@Bulby GDC Direct, come on Nintendo!