Nintendo 3rd Party Developer Conference

[Viper]

Starts in 10 minutes.

IGN is live blogging the event.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/117/1174592p1.html

I know Ubisoft is going to be there and I suspect EA as well. Hopefully a surprise from some western developers like Bioware, Bethesda or Rockstar.

The online infrastructure is also expected to be detailed here. Nintendo stated they will be partnering with somebody...I'm really hoping it's Valve.

[Crazybone126]

Steam on Wii U....pleeease?

[Viper]

Ubisoft doing some of the hosting. Will provide massive Wii U support.

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Assassins Creed, Rabbids, Ghost Recon Online and Killer Freaks (new IP) to be shown shortly.

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Ghost Recon Online is being shown first.

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Online service is "Always On".

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"Showing people using touch pad to arm weapons, people talking to each other, coordinating attacks and scanning maps with tablet, calling air attacks with tablet.

They're doing this while still playing on the TV."

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Has voice chat.

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Might do in game video chat.

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Wii U tablet is fully interactive command post screen.

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Can be used to view live video as a drone flies over head of enemies.

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Not part of the conference but a thought hit me....imagine playing Metroid and you hold up the tablet to see the world as your selected visor. Think of how that baseball demo at the conference was done.

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Launch your drone into flight, table view looks below, find your enemy and mark him, TV still shows player view but now has a marker on the enemy.

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Ghost Recon Online will use it's own online service. Personal profiles, stats, listings, rankings, matchmaking, etc...

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Ghost Feed system allows you to use the tablet to track your friends activities, achievements and schedule matches, etc...

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Killer Freaks From Outer Space is a new exclusive IP for Wii U.

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It's a FPS. Multiplayer focused.

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Supposed to redefine the genre.

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Demo being shown but nothing on how it redefines stuff yet.

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Setting is London...killing little alien things.

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Sticks move character, table is for aiming. Incredible graphics and lighting for so early in development.

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Can use just the tablet if you like and move in complete 360 freedom.

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Feels much better and more intuitive than Face Raiders on 3DS.

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Gyro, accelerometers and twin sticks help create more precise aiming.

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Environmental destruction.

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Looks like they just learned why they are called "freaks". Alien S&M going on.

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Showing a 1 vs 1 demo. 1 is using the tablet and the other is using the Classic Controller pro.

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All on one Wii U.

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Also to note, an achievement system will be in place for Wii U online.

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Demo over. Next up.......Assassins Creed.

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Hardware note. Many core CPU and lots of RAM.

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Wii U easily accepts all graphical assets and shaders from other platform builds.

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It's a new game from Ubisoft Quebec. Exclusive most likely.

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Q&A session now.

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Now they won't say if it's new or a port, haha.

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Ubisoft working with Nintendo to make it free to play like the PC version.

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2 more games to cover.

Seems like this 3rd party developer conference is more of a Ubisoft developer conference.

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Dev kits are not final hardware. It's still evolving.

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All of Ubi's demos were prepared very quickly.

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And.....we're done.

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Media assets to arrive shortly.

[Crazybone126]

I want to see that Freak game. It still doesn't seem that Nintendo has set up an online network though. Why should Ubi have to make and use their own servers?

[tokoshi_x]

http://www.killerfreaks.com/

[Viper]

I want to see that Freak game. It still doesn't seem that Nintendo has set up an online network though. Why should Ubi have to make and use their own servers?

Nintendo has said it will offer their own or allow devs to use their own. Giving devs a choice.

[Chris Metal]

is this available to watch this conference again? I missed it

[Crazybone126]

no, the roundtables aren't broadcasted.

[Chris Metal]

shame

[Viper]

is this available to watch this conference again? I missed it

If you missed the main E3 Presentation conference, you can watch that at e3.nintendo.com. But as Crazy noted, the smaller developer conferences do not allow film or photography.

[Generosity of God]

09:00 - Ghost Recon Online demo

i like how they are using the controller. certainly has potential for quick and efficient tactical gameplay.

30:00 Killer Freaks From Space demo

not sure about gyro aiming but will certainly give it a go. the Killer Freaks reminds me of a Rabbids version of the Gremlins. that multi-player mode is interesting and could turn out to be pretty fun. would be good to have Alien commander vs 4 players. obviously needs to be fleshed out and balanced though.

50:30 - Assassin's Creed really short talk

54:30 - Q&A