"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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