All the great stuff at GDC gets replicated on all the news sites, so I don't bother to go. Here's one of the more interesting speeches from Satoru Iwata, the current president of Nintendo. He talks about the early days as a developer, and about the future of games.
GDC 2005: Satoru Iwata Keynote Transcript
He hits a lot of the keypoints which are an issue today in the game world, such as the risk that companies are now willing to take in making a game. Essentially publishers want low risk, high return games -- which is why the variety in game genres doesn't seem to be growing.
The 4 I's:
- Innovation
- Intuition
- Inviting
- Interface
He talks about the new Zelda as well as pushes the Nintendo DS, and in fact during his keynotes pulls people out of the audience to have them play Mario Cart DS (wirelessly) with him.
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