GDC Iwata Keynote Summary, Zelda for DS announced

To make it short: Nintendo President Iwata didn’t have any really big news to tell (New Revolution name?), but the things he mentioned while holding his speech are still very interesting.

  • A total of 5 million copies of Brain Age were sold across Japan.

(He celebrated this by giving everyone in the audience a free copy of the game and inviting Will Wright, Jamil Moledina and Geoff Keighley to play the game on stage with each other)

  • Zelda is heading for the DS. The game will be called “Zelda: Phantom Hourglass”. Gameplay will be 2D with 3D graphics, and it will be shown alongside Twilight Princess at the upcoming E3.
  • Revolution’s ‘Virtual Console’ service will also feature Mega Drive games
  • He dislikes the way games are made currently: With bigger and bigger teams, licenses and huge marketing costs for a $50/$60 end product. “Our industry is starting to look like a bookstore where you can only buy expensive encyclopedia sets”.

So the real facts about Revolution will probably be revealed at E3 – nonetheless, his announcements are pretty promising. Let’s see what the future brings.

To make it short: Nintendo President Iwata didn’t have any really big news to tell (New Revolution name?), but the things he mentioned while holding his speech are still very interesting.

  • A total of 5 million copies of Brain Age were sold across Japan.

(He celebrated this by giving everyone in the audience a free copy of the game and inviting Will Wright, Jamil Moledina and Geoff Keighley to play the game on stage with each other)

  • Zelda is heading for the DS. The game will be called “Zelda: Phantom Hourglass”. Gameplay will be 2D with 3D graphics, and it will be shown alongside Twilight Princess at the upcoming E3.
  • Revolution’s ‘Virtual Console’ service will also feature Mega Drive games
  • He dislikes the way games are made currently: With bigger and bigger teams, licenses and huge marketing costs for a $50/$60 end product. “Our industry is starting to look like a bookstore where you can only buy expensive encyclopedia sets”.

So the real facts about Revolution will probably be revealed at E3 – nonetheless, his announcements are pretty promising. Let’s see what the future brings.

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