E3 has been useless for a long time. Historically, the point of E3 was for publishers to all save up their major announcements and press releases, then release them all at once during a period of artificially high media attention.
E3 used to be more of an "insider" industry event, too. But in the last 20 years, publishers have increasingly just stopped holding announcements and released their announcements directly online, while E3 has turned into a retail commercial event aimed at separating tourists from their money.
E3 originally use to be for retail purchasing managers. They would show up and gauge now big the fall games would be, so they could size up their orders.
In a time where millions of copies of games get sold digitally and social media provides a barometer of what’s hot; E3 lost its appeal.
Lololol. No booth babes and cool games. No E3. I hope the journalist faggots who get all expense paid vacations to visit this shithole cope and seethe.
Here's the thing - E3 was for the press, retailers and bigwigs way back when the 16-bit era was starting to wrap up, the internet was still crawling out of the deepest dankest depths of DARPA, and CD-ROM titles were starting to come out of the woodwork, it was NEVER meant to be Gamerpalooza 20xx, and it wasn't until recently that developers and publishers realized they didn't need to waste a good chunk of their mark-o-bucks on fancy glorified staged commercials which could've been spent putting Mr. CoDnite (or whatever's hip now, I'm old) on bags of cheese chips when they could just day-bomb their YT channels with the reveals for big games and get equal response
Another thing was that back in that era - it wouldn't be a challenge to pop out a few demo versions for a few key games, but now with the massive time, resources, and money it takes to make a Triple A game, it'd take time out of the schedule.
And why do a once-a-year media event when you can have five teaser trailers, three exclusive gameplay cuts, a sneak peek video, an announce trailer, an announce video, four exclusive videos, five developer interview videos, then three more trailers, a gameplay trailer and an HD trailer?
This, it made sense in '96 when a majority of the gaming press were magazines and such, and the online players were just starting to show up toting around their fancy new AOL keywords and Shockwave-animated intro pages, but now the game's changed.
Not to mention that instead of getting your own article on every site when you drop these big pieces, E3 had you as a piece of a huge article shared with the entire industry that was also there as a general overview.
the internet was still crawling out of the deepest dankest depths of DARPA
Their best totally not intended to be a surveillance tool ever. Just before Facebook and everything else. Oh, look, they even got the CIA to manage it, too.
E3 has been on life support for a decade. It just doesn't make sense to fly teams around the world to make announcements with online communications tech the way it is.
I think gaming companies realized something, especially when covid forced them to make their own.
They don't need E3, E3 needs them.
Why pay tens of thousands for space, put on a show, and have to sit there and watch other companies gloat, when you can just make your own E3. That way all the huge advertising, and the hype train they can make and drive themselves.
E3 just like gaming magazines are a relic of the past, they were great when it was our only source for new announcements, but there isn't really a point anymore now that everyone can just do their own streams.
I blame the people running the convention. I've seen their work and it's always half assed corporate. A new guy might be amazed, but the second or third visit becomes boring. PAX is run by the same company and you can see how boring it got. It's over the top dullness.
E3 has been useless for a long time. Historically, the point of E3 was for publishers to all save up their major announcements and press releases, then release them all at once during a period of artificially high media attention.
E3 used to be more of an "insider" industry event, too. But in the last 20 years, publishers have increasingly just stopped holding announcements and released their announcements directly online, while E3 has turned into a retail commercial event aimed at separating tourists from their money.
Good riddance.
E3 originally use to be for retail purchasing managers. They would show up and gauge now big the fall games would be, so they could size up their orders.
In a time where millions of copies of games get sold digitally and social media provides a barometer of what’s hot; E3 lost its appeal.
this. why fight for press when you can manage your own whole conference
Oh no! Anyway...
Whatever will we do without seeing all the remakes updated for modern audiences?
Exactly the phrase that popped into my head.
Oh, that's a shame.
/seinfeld
Lololol. No booth babes and cool games. No E3. I hope the journalist faggots who get all expense paid vacations to visit this shithole cope and seethe.
Tokyo Game Show is carrying that torch
Here's the thing - E3 was for the press, retailers and bigwigs way back when the 16-bit era was starting to wrap up, the internet was still crawling out of the deepest dankest depths of DARPA, and CD-ROM titles were starting to come out of the woodwork, it was NEVER meant to be Gamerpalooza 20xx, and it wasn't until recently that developers and publishers realized they didn't need to waste a good chunk of their mark-o-bucks on fancy glorified staged commercials which could've been spent putting Mr. CoDnite (or whatever's hip now, I'm old) on bags of cheese chips when they could just day-bomb their YT channels with the reveals for big games and get equal response
Another thing was that back in that era - it wouldn't be a challenge to pop out a few demo versions for a few key games, but now with the massive time, resources, and money it takes to make a Triple A game, it'd take time out of the schedule.
And why do a once-a-year media event when you can have five teaser trailers, three exclusive gameplay cuts, a sneak peek video, an announce trailer, an announce video, four exclusive videos, five developer interview videos, then three more trailers, a gameplay trailer and an HD trailer?
This, it made sense in '96 when a majority of the gaming press were magazines and such, and the online players were just starting to show up toting around their fancy new AOL keywords and Shockwave-animated intro pages, but now the game's changed.
Not to mention that instead of getting your own article on every site when you drop these big pieces, E3 had you as a piece of a huge article shared with the entire industry that was also there as a general overview.
Their best totally not intended to be a surveillance tool ever. Just before Facebook and everything else. Oh, look, they even got the CIA to manage it, too.
E3 has been on life support for a decade. It just doesn't make sense to fly teams around the world to make announcements with online communications tech the way it is.
I think gaming companies realized something, especially when covid forced them to make their own.
They don't need E3, E3 needs them.
Why pay tens of thousands for space, put on a show, and have to sit there and watch other companies gloat, when you can just make your own E3. That way all the huge advertising, and the hype train they can make and drive themselves.
And nothing of value was lost.
E3 just like gaming magazines are a relic of the past, they were great when it was our only source for new announcements, but there isn't really a point anymore now that everyone can just do their own streams.
Give it a few years. Something new will come along and take the same boom and bust approach. The economy is just not ready for it right now.
I blame the people running the convention. I've seen their work and it's always half assed corporate. A new guy might be amazed, but the second or third visit becomes boring. PAX is run by the same company and you can see how boring it got. It's over the top dullness.
Doesn't this company run almost all conventions now? They are all fucking awful.
They own the term ComiCon. So, yes.
I need to pay more attention to who runs certain conventions so I can actually know what’s good or not tbh.