E3 is finally dead after more than two decades - Kotaku In Action 2

E3 is finally dead after more than two decades (www.gematsu.com)

posted 345 days ago by CoronaChan 345 days ago by CoronaChan +48 / -2

E3 officially dead after more than two decades

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), once held every summer as the games industry’s biggest convention, is officially dead, the Entertainment Software Association confirmed.

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– Michalusmichalus 9 points 345 days ago +9 / -0

Digital only events are what killed them. That's called reading the online news, watching commercials.

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– Cyberguy64 6 points 345 days ago +6 / -0

Gotta love the Nintendo Directs. How else will we know that seven Farm Simulator RPGs are coming to market?

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– HallucinatoryBeing 6 points 345 days ago +6 / -0

Stardew Valley really cracked that genre open.

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– HallucinatoryBeing 1 point 345 days ago +1 / -0

Xsneed had to change the name to Story of Seasons because Natsume held the rights to Harvest Moon.

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– Adamrises 1 point 345 days ago +1 / -0

HM had been pretty niche for years at that. The last time you saw people really talking about it was HM64. It and Rune Factory spent the following decades being "too anime" to make a big wave.

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