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The Game Developers Conference will return to the Moscone Center in San Francisco, March 19-23, 2018, and call for papers was recently announced. Floor plans, early versions, were also made available. There are some major changes for 2018 with South Hall now being divided into two zones, though North Hall seems relatively untouched (apart from booth locations of course). Anyway, I had a look at the floor plans and Nintendo once again does not have a regular booth (only three business meeting rooms, each 200 sq ft).
Of course, these plans are not by any means finalized and much could change before GDC 2018 starts, but Nintendo has since 2015 forgone from a regular booth (in 2014 they had a 2500 sq ft booth in South Hall).
Bit of a wasted opportunity to not have a bigger presence at GDC 2018. There are many developers eager to start working on games for Nintendo Switch, and by March 2018 I would hope that Nintendo of America is seeing a more stabilized situation with large scale development houses and can then allocate some resources to small and medium size enterprises (indie developers primarily). Some kind of larger demonstration of development on Nintendo Switch wouldn't hurt. Especially for NA/EU.
For reference, Sony has one 6000 sq ft booth (601) in South Hall. Microsoft has seven 200 sq ft booths in North Hall.
Source: http://fp37.a2zinc.net/Clients/fpUBM/GDC2018/Public/eventmap.aspx
Of course, these plans are not by any means finalized and much could change before GDC 2018 starts, but Nintendo has since 2015 forgone from a regular booth (in 2014 they had a 2500 sq ft booth in South Hall).
Bit of a wasted opportunity to not have a bigger presence at GDC 2018. There are many developers eager to start working on games for Nintendo Switch, and by March 2018 I would hope that Nintendo of America is seeing a more stabilized situation with large scale development houses and can then allocate some resources to small and medium size enterprises (indie developers primarily). Some kind of larger demonstration of development on Nintendo Switch wouldn't hurt. Especially for NA/EU.
For reference, Sony has one 6000 sq ft booth (601) in South Hall. Microsoft has seven 200 sq ft booths in North Hall.
Source: http://fp37.a2zinc.net/Clients/fpUBM/GDC2018/Public/eventmap.aspx