Game Developers Conference — A Focus on Hardware?

Several reports are coming in on the reveals and discussions from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. There appears to be a focus on the hardware of the games, with the success of the Nintendo Wii propelling rivals to make similar, naturalistic interfaces for their games, such as Sony PlayStation Move and the creation of the VirtuSphere. Additionally, there is focus on what is deemed to be a rising, and lucrative, type of multiplayer games — the social games — such as those that occur on facebook that I have discussed on this blog. There was also attention paid to understanding the user, at least as Sid Meier does. For more coverage of the happenings at this year’s GDC, check out CNET’s ongoing series of articles.