We can effectively declare E3 dead.
I thought E3 died a couple years ago already?
I still think E3 could have been good if they only accepted games with a release date within 12 months and required in-engine gameplay.
Always felt that getting hype for something from E3 was a eight year track to sadness.
I struggle to understand why E3 isn’t a thing anymore but companies like Microsoft do their shows under the Summer Game Showcase brand. Didn’t E3 fail because companies wanted their own spaces?
I’m too lazy to look this up to verify, but I think part of E3’s problem was that when it came back post COVID it was charging absurd fees for a booth compared to the Summer Games Showcase.
yeah. as i understand the ESA is also kind of unpleasant to work with and not necessarily who you’d trust most to run an industry event like this. coupled with increased desire for companies to control their events and COVID, it’s really hard to justify E3
E3 hasn’t been worthwhile in a long time. It’s what happens when you let big corporations take over.
Hold up, it was originally supposed to be a trade show for journalists. It’s always been about the big corporations. They’ve always had a dominance over the event.
The problem was that E3 was seen by the public as something to desire access to, as being exclusive and so on. This drove the organising body to open it up to more general access. In doing so, the audience changed, so the content on display changed, and it became a shitty version of PAX.
And that’s what killed it, in turn.
