cobaka 0 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Senior industry sources have revealed to Next-Gen.Biz that the E3 industry event, in its present form, has been cancelled for next year and the foreseeable future. http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_c...38&Itemid=2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 No... more... Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pz3 338 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 (edited) maybe the publishers/developers need to spend that extra money into actually making a game worth a damn. Cant just put this garbage out on us like the movies do and expect people to buy. Sure girls look nice but promoting piles of crap dont do anything for me. Edited July 30, 2006 by Prozac360 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Sure girls look nice but promoting piles of crap dont do anything for me. That's almost sig worthy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteKnight77 1 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Whao. This is big news, but will it actually transfer into more money being spent on decent development of games as Prozac and others would like to see or just be spent on each companies own showing of it's products somewhere else other than E3? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CR6 0 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 The industry still needs a larger scale event for people to make connections. Anyways, the UK's ECTS event was a big deal years ago but went down the tubes. There will always still be other large trade shows in Europe and Japan, just need one in N. America. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FA sear 0 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Sure girls look nice but promoting piles of crap dont do anything for me. That's almost sig worthy. Agreed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cobaka 0 Posted August 1, 2006 Author Share Posted August 1, 2006 Video game trade show to be scaled down By MAY WONG, AP Technology WriterMon Jul 31, 9:01 PM ET The video game industry's largest annual trade show, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, will be scaled down dramatically next year amid industry desires for a more intimate setting, organizers said Monday. "This is not a wake or a funeral. It's about changing E3 to meet the modern needs of the industry," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, the trade group that operates the show. The glitzy three-day extravaganza in May drew about 60,000 attendees and 400 exhibitors spread across 550,000 square feet of exhibit space. It was almost double the size of the inaugural show 12 years ago and had evolved — as have some other large trade shows — into more of a spectacle than an event conducive for dealmaking and meetings. "There was a lot of glitter and splashy competition," Lowenstein said. "That's fun for people walking around, but it doesn't emerge as a productive way of three days to conduct business." After years of consideration, the trade group's 16-member board of directors unanimously approved the overhaul last week, Lowenstein said. Board members include representatives from the biggest players in the industry: Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news)., Nintendo Co., Electronic Arts Inc., Microsoft Corp. and THQ Inc. Details are still being worked out, but some of the known changes are: _The event will be moved from the Los Angeles Convention Center to a smaller venue yet to be determined, possibly a hotel. _The usual date in May will be pushed to early July, closer to the holiday season. In recent years, an increasing number of exhibitors were compelled to show off their upcoming products but were unable to present demonstrations that could be played. _Attendance will be by invitation only. Although the event had always been closed to the general public, almost anyone involved in the industry could previously attend. Attendance is expected in the "thousands" instead of "tens of thousands," Lowenstein said. _The number of exhibit booths will also be decreased. The trade show will aim to provide a setting for "high-quality" meetings with media, developers, retailers and other key industry audiences, Lowenstein said. The new format should also help reduce the costs for participating companies at a time when game development and marketing costs have increased and other video game trade shows have cropped up around the world. The distribution of video games has also changed dramatically in the past decade. In the early days of E3, part of the goal was to help expose the growing industry to all the intermediaries in retail distribution, but the consolidation of the retail channel to a few major players such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. or Target Corp., has led to more direct sales instead. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stalker_Zero 0 Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 (edited) Well I for one think this is retarded. Why don't still keep it big but reduce costs? No more freakin wasting of money with parties or lavish sets. but ya dump some money back in game development. How about opening the show to the general public and charge for admission? Yes, scale back the show but don't scale it back so far that it becomes nothing! People actually look forward to the show and I think it will be a big mistake if this goes away. See, I think Sony and others were big time embarassed about their sorry and I mean pathetic showing at the last E3 show. If the PS3 was on schedule and actually working I betcha there would not be talk about a planned downsizing of E3. I guess vendors don't want to pay money to show off the problems they are having with their products. Edited August 1, 2006 by Stalker_Zero Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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