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.
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.
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.
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.