Nintendo's Satoru Iwata Will Deliver GDC 2009 Keynote
January 27, 2009
Nintendo Co. Ltd. President Satoru Iwata is going to deliver this year's Game Developer Conference keynote speech. Usually this would be a time for celebration. Previous GDC keynotes from Nintendo personnel have brought us announcements such as the mysteries of the machine that would become the Wii and the revelation of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, but this year I am a little more pessimistic about the event. Why? Check out the title of the presentation in this news article from Kombo.
"Discovering New Development Opportunities". If that isn't the code phrase for "casual crap is profitable", then I don't know what is. I know that sounds very negative of me, but considering how far down the casual audience road Nintendo has gone this generation and how the company seems to be working on fewer and fewer high quality core audience games, I'm not sure what other conclusion I can draw from this news. When I was young, my grandparents, aunts, and uncles on one side of the family would always tell my parents that Nintendo was something I would outgrow, but I never imagined that one day Nintendo would outgrow me.