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#1 Meelow100

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 01:07 PM

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"So, for April this is what's in store regarding conferences and events Nintendo will in one way or another be at. Note that not all of these are game related events, some are IR events and some concern specific technology.

Conferences/events Nintendo will attend/exhibit at in April:

In chronological order.

CMMA Professional Development Conference

Date(s): March 31 - April 3
Venue(s): Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond Marriott Town Center, Redmond, WA
Topic: Media management
Probability of news: Very unlikely

Nintendo of America's Charles Nishida (AV production manager) attends as co-chair together with Microsoft Studios' Brian Honey (director/group manager). The CMMA Conference concerns mainly the creation, distribution and utilization of communications media for corporations and probably won't feature any news about Wii U (or Durango) released publicly anyway. On Monday there is an opening presentation at 9:00AM followed by a Tour Nintendo/Microsoft Studios at 5:15PM. I'm not expecting any news from this, but I'm expecting people to talk much about Wii U at least, perhaps there will be some buzz about Durango as well. It's not every day Microsoft and Nintendo walk so closely.

http://www.cmma.org/

PAX East

Date(s): April 6 - 8
Venue(s): The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA
Topic: Public video game expo
Probability of news: Moderate

Nintendo will be exhibiting at this show. If they will demonstrate the Wii U or only offer demos of upcoming and current Nintendo 3DS games is unknown though. I've suggested previously that due to the show being open to the public Nintendo may provide something about Wii U to prevent an angry mob from being established, and also to not have to answer questions about Wii U all day with "I'm sorry, I can't comment on that at this time".

http://east.paxsite.com/

2012 NAB Show

Date(s): April 14 - 19
Venue(s):Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas Hotel and Casino
Topic: Audio and video content creation
Probability of news: Unlikely

Nintendo of America is not exhibiting at this show, but attending. What they will do there I don't know, but perhaps they are attending to find some interesting technologies to license for Wii U, or they are attending to talk with a company whose technologies or services they have already licensed but not announced yet. Major companies exhibiting at this show include Adobe Systems, Advantech, Akamai, Autodesk, Dolby, NVIDIA, Panasonic, Red Digital Cinema, Sony and THX to name a few. At it's height we'll get an announcement of some licensing deal, similar to that of Autodesk and Havok.

http://www.nabshow.c...012/default.asp

IBM 1Q 2012 Earnings Announcement

Date(s): April 17, 04:30 p.m. ET
Venue(s): IBM HQ, Armonk, NY
Topic: IR event
Probability of news: Unlikely

I'm not expecting any comments or remarks on Wii U during the presentation, though anything could happen, if anything will come from this it will be via the Q&A session after the presentation. This usually takes an hour (Q&A session included) and is rather boring if you don't happen to own shares in IBM; though sometimes they provide some details about upcoming tech, in vague language. Why this presentation could be of importance is that it reflects the first quarter of IBM's business and I would think it is in their interest to brief investors about new initiatives within the fiscal year, and Wii U is included in that. I do not know what companies will participate, but hopefully someone us eager to know more about Nintendo's new console and will ask about it.

http://www.ibm.com/investor/events/

Q1 2012 Advanced Micro Devices Earnings Conference Call

Date(s): April 19, 02:00 p.m. PT
Venue(s): AMD HQ, Sunnyvale, CA
Topic: IR event
Probability of news: Moderate

Much like IBM's presentation will this focus on financials, but AMD always provides quite much information about upcoming and current systems and technologies. And like with IBM, this presentation reflects AMD's business in the first quarter of 2012 and more than likely is briefing investors on new initiatives in the fiscal year something on the agenda. On the 2012 Analyst Day, AMD spoke about their increased involvement with the video game industry, maybe they are going to elaborate on this further. Most likely there will be a Q&A session to this. As I see it, interest in Wii U's GPU appears heavier than interest in the CPU, so with little effort could AMD create some hype here even without actually telling something specific about the chip.

http://ir.amd.com/ph....ventId=4723953

COLLABORATE 12 - OAUG Forum

Date(s): April 22 - 26
Venue(s): Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
Topic: Technology and applications for the Oracle community
Probability of news: Very unlikely

Like the NAB Show, Nintendo is just attending and is probably seeking technologies to license or business partners. Notable exhibitors include AT&T, Cisco, Comdata, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Thomson Reuters to name a few. Not expecting any news from here.

http://collaborate.oaug.org/

Nintendo Fiscal Year Earnings Release

Date(s): April 26
Venue(s): Nintendo HQ, Minami-ku, Kyoto
Topic: IR event
Probability of news: Very likely, almost guaranteed

This is what we are all waiting for. Wii U news will most likely come here; if it will be more info about NFC and similar I don't know though.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/

To summarize, in April we've got three events that may provide some new information about Wii U, the most likely being Nintendo's IR event on the 26th of April."

I just have to say the CMMA Professional Development Conference is Interesting because Nintendo + Microsoft will be togather.

Edited by Meelow100, 31 March 2012 - 09:27 PM.


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Posted 31 March 2012 - 01:18 PM

I just read that post myself, was pretty nice.
My bet's on nothing until e3 because I might be disappointed if I expect something.

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#3 Meelow100

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 01:22 PM

I just read that post myself, was pretty nice.
My bet's on nothing until e3 because I might be disappointed if I expect something.


The good thing is in 2006 at Nintendo Fiscal Year Earnings Release they announced the name Wii, and on April 26, 2011 that's when they announced Project Cafe, and in January of this year they announced the NFC, and account systems for Wii U, so at this Nintendo Fiscal Year Earnings Release there is a HUGE chance we will get Wii U news, hopefully name change announcment.

Edited by Meelow100, 31 March 2012 - 03:27 PM.


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Posted 31 March 2012 - 02:23 PM

The good thing is in 2006 at Nintendo Fiscal Year Earnings Release they announced the name Wii, and on April 26, 2011 that's when they announced Project Cafe, and in January of this year they announced the NFS, and account systems for Wii U, so at this Nintendo Fiscal Year Earnings Release there is a HUGE chance we will get Wii U news, hopefully name change announcment.

Need For Speed on Wii U? How is that impressive?

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 02:56 PM

NFS?????????

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 03:04 PM

Need For Speed on Wii U? How is that impressive?

That just cracked me up, I think he ment NFC.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 03:27 PM

That just cracked me up, I think he ment NFC.


This is what I meant, sorry for the typo.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 07:33 PM

Good post. Definitely will be keeping these dates in my calendar.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 10:29 PM

Hmm interesting thanks for posting this

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Posted 01 April 2012 - 10:05 AM

Bring it on, April 26th. Though I think, if there will be a name-change (like with Revolution) it will be E3 because they said that's when the 'definitive version' will be shown.
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Posted 01 April 2012 - 10:23 AM

Bring it on, April 26th. Though I think, if there will be a name-change (like with Revolution) it will be E3 because they said that's when the 'definitive version' will be shown.


They would need to make everyone know it has a name change for a longer period of time, and at E3 if they did confirm the name chance on April 26 then they could just get that through and start off with the name chance.

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Posted 01 April 2012 - 10:25 AM

I highly doubt there will be a name change. I really don't see the need for one.

I'm looking for news besides that, mostly relating to Pikmin 3.
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Posted 01 April 2012 - 10:26 AM

I highly doubt there will be a name change. I really don't see the need for one.

I'm looking for news besides that, mostly relating to Pikmin 3.


I won't care if there's not a name change but I think there is a good reason, the 3DS, people still think it's a new version of the DS and people are already confused with it, so I do hope it does get a name chance...Maybe Nintendo Revolution.

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Posted 01 April 2012 - 10:29 AM

good news, I'm skeptical about the name change everyone's talking about, I feel pax and the earnings release will be our newsbringers, most likely it will be talk without any videos, that talk might include some good info though
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Posted 01 April 2012 - 10:37 AM

They would need to make everyone know it has a name change for a longer period of time, and at E3 if they did confirm the name chance on April 26 then they could just get that through and start off with the name chance.

By "confirming the name change" do you mean that they will say "there will be a new name. We'll tell it at E3" or actually confirm the name?

I think they might just reveal EVERYTHING we need to know about the Wii U at E3 so that this year's E3 will be huge.
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Posted 01 April 2012 - 11:07 AM

By "confirming the name change" do you mean that they will say "there will be a new name. We'll tell it at E3" or actually confirm the name?

I think they might just reveal EVERYTHING we need to know about the Wii U at E3 so that this year's E3 will be huge.


I'm saying they would confirm the name on April 26.

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 04:12 AM

^Hm, I don't know. I really think they want to save it for E3. IF it will come. No-one said it would, it was just a rumour... If they are not going to call it Wii Something, then I also think they should revamp the looks.
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Posted 03 April 2012 - 12:24 PM

thanks for this now i can be sure to pay attention to april 26 they usually always share new's during fiscal earning meetings

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Posted 03 April 2012 - 10:39 PM

so far there's no news before pax, all there seems to be known is there will be 3ds stuff, nothing talked about the Wiiu
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Posted 17 April 2012 - 10:06 AM

IBM's meeting is today.

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