New Brawl Info at GDC

[wii1991]

What to expect?

-New Trailer
-More talk about online
-More returning charecters
-New chatecter
-Possible Release Date


Source: http://smashbrossource.com/?p=19

 

[Croco]

Thanks!
well hopefully we get something tonight or tomorrow..

 

[Onifrio]

Great now im going to be whoring my f5 key all day.

 

[Master.Lord.Marth.]

This isnt exactly hard proof...more like just expectations. We can all hope i suppose.

 

[Papapaint]

I call shenanigans. He basically emailed a bunch of people who wouldn't know, read all the optimistic emails, and turned it into a looseball prediction.

Nintendo won't be saying very much at all about games released outside of Q2 (as we've seen with Metroid), and definitely won't be using this time to reveal new secrets about Brawl. GDC is not time for game companies to start hype and rumors, it's a time for them to discuss games as art and developmental projects--thus that one Spore designer calling the Wii a piece of sh*t, Xbox talking about the definites for Halo 3 legendary release, and EA revealing their predictions about sony.

 

[mastr0fmyd0main3]

Almightypancake, you don't know anything. Anyway, when is the GDC conference? Tomorrow? March 9th?

 

[Scav]

Citing our blogging competitor makes me

We'll see, first up we have Miyamoto's keynote in 15 minutes

Also, the line "what's to say it won't come out in April" makes me grin. We know THAT much for sure, at least. If Brawl is going to be talked about in terms of online plans, and the first Nintendo online game is Pokemon Battle Revolution in June, then the math is pretty simple.

Edit2: And Pancake speaks a lot of truth. There is indeed a chance something will be revealed tomorrow, but I'm skeptical it will be brawl. At best, it will be a mention of Brawl amongst titles with online functionality.

 

[Papapaint]

...

The conference has been going on for days.

"Nintendo won't be saying very much at all about games released outside of Q2 (as we've seen with Metroid), and definitely won't be using this time to reveal new secrets about Brawl. GDC is not time for game companies to start hype and rumors, it's a time for them to discuss games as art and developmental projects--thus that one Spore designer calling the Wii a piece of sh*t, Xbox talking about the definites for Halo 3 legendary release, and EA revealing their predictions about sony."

All of those sentences are based off of what's happened at GDC so far. Nintendo's already done it's big release dates announcement. They've already had their demo games up, and there is no evidence that they will show much outside of Q2. In fact, all evidence points to the contrary--the only game outside of Q2 that's been much discussed by anyone has been Halo 3 (and spore, but not much).

 

[Paranoid_Android]

I agree with almightypancake. You're getting your hopes up because of some guy who put a positive spin on some vague emails.

 

[RVD_fan]

I almost cried when I didn't see any Brawl updates on the long, long list of games and other things discussed.

 

[Sensai]

You guys act surprised...

You realize that they can't legally announce anything big, right? Due to their stock price drastically decreasing recently, anything 'huge' could be seen as them attempting to influence stock prices.

....don't expect much from them.

 

[Super Smash Master]

Miyamoto's keynote was a HUGE disappointment. Especially after how awesome the PS3 one was. Their's made me go from PS3 hater to wanting one. And Nintendo won't give any Brawl updates for a LONG time. They're mean like that.

 

[JesterBox]

Crud there is no hard evidence... but you have peak my intrest I shall keep my eye on this tommorrow, but I dont really expect much, if anything at all.

 

[Classic-Black]

Miyamoto's keynote was a HUGE disappointment. Especially after how awesome the PS3 one was. Their's made me go from PS3 hater to wanting one. And Nintendo won't give any Brawl updates for a LONG time. They're mean like that.

the game's not being released until at earliest August, latest December of this year. why release so much info now? it doesn't make since frmo a marketing POV because it will kill they hype surrounding the game

 

[Master.Lord.Marth.]

Miyamoto's keynote was a HUGE disappointment. Especially after how awesome the PS3 one was. Their's made me go from PS3 hater to wanting one. And Nintendo won't give any Brawl updates for a LONG time. They're mean like that.

I agree comepletely, PS3 stole the show with "Little Big Planet."

 

[Brawlmatt202]

Oh, wait, none of this was actually confirmed yet. Thanks for getting me excited for nothing!

 

[Infil]

Miyamoto's keynote at GDC (think about that acronym for a minute) has to do with how he chooses to develop games. That's why he talked about how the controllers were developed, and how he frames his mindset when he goes into a project. I have a sneaking suspicion this kind of topic is pretty interesting when you consider what kinds of projects Miyamoto has been involved with. Having him speak at this conference was an honor.

He's not there to hype Nintendo's next big thing, or to give you updates on a game his team isn't working on. He's there to talk about how HE goes about making HIS games. Come on guys.

I will admit PS3 had a positive keynote (their first in quite some time), but they have a lot of work to do still. LittleBigPlanet will likely be like Ico; a great game no one will play (for a variety of reasons, including; it's in a niche genre, few people will have PS3s, etc), or it could be a bad game that is overhyped. Either way, it's not going to sell consoles, and PSHome is getting only slightly positive reception (the threat of hackers, able to run Linux on PS3, overwhelming ad space, and inability to easily go from PSHome to your actual game are negatives).

See, this conference is about how games are developed... the art of it. Not specific details on projects still a year away. Those who expected it only let themselves down.

 

[Drik Khaail]

Man, I almost thought there was gonna be more facts... ah well, at least they gave us "2007"
with the release date... they can't take that away...

 

[Dazza!]

saw the keyunote coverage, nothing about brawl, a lot of junk though.

 

[Croco]

saw the keyunote coverage, nothing about brawl, a lot of junk though.

It wasn't too bad.. from what I heard.

It bothered me when I read Miyamoto mentioned a new Wii channel involving popularity with Miis.

Well.. Atleast Paper Mario looks kickass.
Mario Galaxy looked sweet also.
Which brings something up..
Mario Galaxy is coming out later 2007.. so why would they not have news on Brawl?

We should all remember the the first Brawl trailer was very unexpected.. some of us said.. "Where is it?" or "It's not going to show." Nintendo might pull something out of their sleeves again at the last minute like they did at E3 2006..

 

[Super Smash Master]

They won't.

 

[mastr0fmyd0main3]

I love how you tools say "he's not here to release info on games you scrubs" when they talked about paper mario and mario galaxy.

 

[Croco]

I love how you tools say "he's not here to release info on games you scrubs" when they talked about paper mario and mario galaxy.

Yeah ALLOT of new info.
Including..

Mario Strikers
Pokemon Battle Revolution
Big Brain Academy


If it does not happen.. I won't be disappointed. I just do not understand why anyone would even doubt it.

 

[Devastlian]

But that's the thing; there wasn't really info about them. Super Paper Mario was playable but we didn't learn anything really new about it...a couple power ups maybe but nothing to really push it beyond what we knew. Super Mario Galaxy (which was shown during Mr. Miyamoto's lecture because it's something he's actually working on) didn't show anything new, either; in fact most of the enemies shown were (variations on) classic Mario enemies. We didn't learn anything new about the gameplay and they just showed a couple new paths and satellites and the same jumping and flying we saw at E3.

I guess they could roll out playable builds and/or more in depth trailers for SMG, MP3, and SSBB tomorrow if they really are in the clear but I'm not gonna get my hopes up.

 

[McFox]

As contradictory as this is going to sound, smashbrossource is not a source for Smash Brothers info. I mean, just read the following paragraph:

So I went ahead today and asked gaming bloggers of what they thought Nintendo will include in their keynote. And the general consensus is that some details of Brawl will come out along with a timeline of how the online gets implemented. And one person sent me back some very nice information. This information being that they will probably show more characters that are going to be on this game. She hinted that Captain Falcon and Ness were prime suspects and I tend to agree with her.

So, we're relying on the general consensus of gaming bloggers for official news now? And an anonymous females thinks that Ness and Falcon will be shown... whoopdy doo.

Please, do not be this gullible.