I got prime location at Nintendo’s keynote at GDC by Satoru Iwata. Sitting 5 rows back on the center aisle. I got to see everything and everyone up close. I live blogged everything, but my internet connection wasn’t working in the Esplanade room, so I’m bringing it all to you now. All times are ET since I didn’t feel like changing my laptop time 
11:52 – Waiting for keynote to start. Watching Totillo, Keighly, Takahashi chat with Reggie.
11:58 – There’s a DSi dev station setup on stage. Maybe showing off US launch DSi-ware games?
12:07 – Megan Scavio takes the stage for intro, talking about the Wii and Iwata’s history
12:09 – Satoru Iwata takes the stage pimping a leather jacket
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One of the keynotes at this year’s Game Developers Conference will be from none other than Metal Gear Solid creator, Hideo Kojima. His keynote, “Solid Game Design: Making the ‘Impossible’ Possible”, will focus on overcoming development obstables in creative game design. Obviously, he’ll be using Metal Gear Solid as an example.
This will be Kojima’s first keynote at GDC and it will take place on Thursday March 26th. We’ll be there to cover it every step of the way.
Maybe he’ll talk about why he went with camel toe for the Beauty and the Beast boss characters in MGS4. One can only hope.
If you’re like me, you’re waiting ever so patiently for Steve Jobs to take the stage and announce new features for the iPhone and Macs. The keynote is about to begin.
If you want to check out all the action, head on over to MacRumors Live for an up to date feed on what’s going down. Here’s to hoping we get MMS for the iPhone…
Microsoft’s keynote at CES is about to begin. We’re live-blogging the event.
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So, I also watched they keynote last night. Looking back on it now, I feel it was a huge waste of an hour or so. I was expecting microsoft to really bring out something interesting. Xbox 360 related or not, I was just hoping for something. I think the IPTV thing was the most interesting part of the keynote, but even thinking back on that, I don’t see how this will provide anything that you’d really want to see over watching cable or satellite as it is now. On top of it, I’m pretty sure that because it’s microsoft we’re talking about, none of the content is going to be free.
We saw no hdmi or hard drive announcements. The only halfway interesting thing game related was the cross platform gaming, with uno. Although at first, this was kinda a cool demo, after thinking about it, it’s not really that amazing. Microsoft is most likely going to try to force pc gamers to start paying for live, across as many games as possible. Uno and Halo2 are supposed to be the first cross live titles, but I heard that Halo2 is actually not going to be cross platform multiplayer, only cross platform in the sense you can message each other via the 360 or pc. This is kinda stupid, but the alternative would surely mean that console users would be slaughtered.
It’s not all doom and gloom for microsoft, but Sony even announced higher sales during their launch than Microsoft had during theirs a year ago. Personally, I think this is mainly because of people buying the systems only to resell them, but it’s definately something that needs to perk microsofts ears up.
It made me think of a funny way to look at what Microsoft says about the number of consoles shipped. With the constant back and forth motion of refurbs being sent in and then arriving doa to users nationwide (possibly worldwide) it makes me wonder how many consoles are actually out there.
The only other part of the keynote I felt was worth commenting on was the whole “house of the future” crap. Bill Gates demoed a kitchen where rfid works in tandem with a projection or otehr type display to show you recipes and other stuff thats kitchen related. We saw this all a few years ago, and why it’s in the keynote I have no idea. Then we saw this bedroom with lcd panels on the wall showing weird random pictures and a webcam view in a picture frame. I just can’t shake the feeling that MS really has nothing new or interesting to show this CES, it’s kinda like they are unprepared or something.
I hope the next few days show us something better here.
So Bill Gates keynote just ended at CES. All I can say is… what a fucking waste of time. No announcement of HDMI enabled 360 or larger hard drive. They announced more about Live Anywhere, which we all already knew about. They just said UNO and Halo 2 will be playable as cross platform. Cool and all, but where’s the good shit? No fucking where. That’s where it is.
With the recent news from Sony today that they’ve sold 1 million PS3 units (Xbox 360 sold 600k in that same time frame), Microsoft better capitalize NOW on whatever they can, meaning HDMI and a larger hard drive. The longer they wait, the more they’re going to piss off their user base.
Just to remind anyone interested that Bill Gates’ CES Keynote Address is tonight at 6:30PM PST. It’s being streamed live here.
Expect announcements of the IPTV service, larger hard drive, and HDMI version of the Xbox 360. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bill talks about Halo 3 either (yeah, I went out on a limb on that one).
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