E3 is finally dead after more than two decades
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I suppose they could never grow enough balls to tell the speedrunning trannies no they won't check for vaccine passports and demand masks? So it just dies off instead.
Early in the 90s, CES was the big thing for gaming. This went on for years but a tumor had formed - the Porn industry. First a few booths, then a whole floor, eventually gaming left CES and became its own show.
E3 was that show. For a time, things worked out. Then the gaming giants started overdoing it. EA, Ubisoft, Sony, all the giants had outgrown the booth idea and became bloated areas which were little more than commercials for tepid product that had already been announced. Smaller studios were getting less attention than they deserved. Innovation began to die out. People started asking inconvenient questions. Companies like Blizzard backed out and started their own conventions.
Now we enter the next iteration. Paid streams. Stacked audiences. Staged demos. Woke pandering.
Buckle up, I guess. We're riding this whirlpool all the way to the bottom of the toilet.
The booths idea worked because E3 was initially intended just for the industry and insiders. That only lasted so long.
My dad took me to a couple CES shows in the early 90s. The first year in particular we came home with so much swag we had to go back to the car to unload and start fresh with new bags.
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Digital only events are what killed them. That's called reading the online news, watching commercials.
Gotta love the Nintendo Directs. How else will we know that seven Farm Simulator RPGs are coming to market?
Stardew Valley really cracked that genre open.
Xsneed had to change the name to Story of Seasons because Natsume held the rights to Harvest Moon.
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.
They were popular relatively, but among people who were already fans of the series and genre. Most people weren't gonna stumble into them randomly and pick it up on a whim. Popular amongst the already niche crowd.
Stardew went mainstream popular, which is a whole different beast.
Next thing that needs to die out is the retarded Games Award.
You could say they need to "wrap it up".
Good.
no fun
no gamers
no games
no E3
There is two parts to this story. Yes, the big names really don't need E3 anymore. Nintendo tends to be the company that moves first, and they have been doing events for a game and traveling shows after the big announcement. Regular announcements are Directs.
The company that owned E3 sold it to the company that owns PAX, Comic Con -literally owns the rights to the word-, and some smaller events. They even have a show in Germany. E3 is basically the biggest problem from turning these other events into bigger names. So, they bought it and shut it down.