became a marketing show and the marketers all got extremely moronic after 2007 or so, with each successive year being a contest to out-moron last year's moronic shitshow
>It was them, they were the first of the big 3 to withdraw
Why do you morons keep making this claim? The opposite is the truth. Nintendo were the last to withdraw and consistently invested the most into E3 of the attending publishers.
Fewer and fewer games to announce now, plus they can just do directs on YT. I think part of the problem with E3 is that is moved away from its tradeshow roots and became an advertising platform. Plus
Remember when E3 was held in an airplane hangar in the 00's. This has happened before. The industry did a turn around because they need big tent pole events to attract normies. It will probably come back at some point if the industry is not completely moronic these days.
Why E3 though and not the several other gaming events? Too many event and too few games.
Now that they have learned that they can make prerecorded shows that they can hype up themselves without having to compete with others manufacturers they don't need E3 anymore.
E3 was always a console show. Now they don't have anything to show off so why even show up? What games would Sony present? (lol) Microsoft has no exclusives and Nintendo already has their own thing.7
>All three console makers pulled out
Damn, witnessing E3 getting massacred in real time
It hasn't been good in years so I won't miss it but I hope that doesn't mean they just won't have any sort of mass announcements
>why did e3 die?
it died like more than 10 years ago
the internet and youtube allowed companies to market their games more freely
they also no longer had to make marketable builds for a specific event and could just have their own events whenever
it got over taken by other cons and events
Its a relic of a bygone era as technology advanced and was no longer needed. I dont understand why this is a question every year
For a throwaway comment, this was pretty accurate. >Still theoretically interesting >But when you open it, it's mostly crap and sponsored fodder >You don't remember realising it was worthless, or coming to hate it. But now that it's basically gone, you don't care.
I thought it was a fun all-purpose trivia and curiosities book for children. When there's some info worth reading of course, the last edition I read was the 2012.
the guinness book of world records ended up having a lot of people submitting either self harm or animal abuse shit to it just to get attention in le ebin book
>they also no longer had to make marketable builds for a specific event and could just have their own events whenever
They could. But without E3 they don't.
If you haven't noticed. Event though they now can hold their own events whenever, and occasionally do. They mostly just hold all their cards close to their chests. And whenever they do show some game, it's only but a fraction of what you'd usually see at E3, provided it's even more than a single game to begin with. And we just don't get a decent picture of what the market actually has to offer for the coming year.
Everything is spaced out. No or at least extremely little information is concentrated ahead of time. And they all just aim to surprise whenever, and just try not to overlap with other news.
Why do game companies no longer use journos as a middleman between them and consumers? It really is a mystery. Anyway here's a clip of an interaction between a journalist and a game dev over a silly joke the dev made during an interview trying to hype up his upcoming game
They simultaneously want to take away anything straight males will like while degrading, debasing and destabilising society. Notice how its only fat ugly women and "women" that go on bawd walks or keep appearing naked? It is why attractive women in games pisses them off more then anything else.
No one wanted to pay money to share the spotlight so they just produce their own Nintendo direct. Funny to see these same companies flock to Geoff but he might even be paying THEM so I guess it works out.
Remember when E3 was held in an airplane hangar in the 00's. This has happened before. The industry did a turn around because they need big tent pole events to attract normies. It will probably come back at some point if the industry is not completely moronic these days.
Devs can't even ship finished games. You expect them to make a show floor demo?
E3 died because the industry is in a state of collapse. AAA development has reached unsustainable levels and is a ticking time bomb.
>Nintendo starts doing directs, doesn't cost anything other than employee time which would have been spent on floor staff anyway and can be pre-recorded to prevent on-stage frick ups >Snoy realizes they can do absolute state (of play) >Microsoft realizes they can do the same
E3 completely and unironically is no longer neccesary in modern times. It's a waste of money for everyone involved
Less and less measurable impact from inviting the gaming press to expensive shoulder rubbing events, when you can speak directly to your audience on social media.
E3 Thrived in a time when developers actually delivered good games every 2 years, but in the age of 1 game per decade and constant delays it's impossible for Sony/Microsoft to have tons of big announcements every year, so it's easier to just announce/preview games at their own stream events one by one when they're ready, rather than trying to get a bunch at once, every single year for one event.
>CES has essentially taken its place
E3 was literally created because the video game industry had grown so large that they were taking up too much space at CES and had to spin off into their own trade show.
I guess it has something to do with paying for an absurd amount of money just to have an exhibit on E3 when they could just put their own conference up on the internet for lesser cost and since they're a major video game company, they really don't need spotlight from a struggling expo when 99% of gamers are pretty updated about their latest line-ups.
It's my wild guess, but there could be better internal reasons.
What's the point of a conference these days when video on demand works perfectly fine like it has been doing for Nintendo. I think the only reason conferences are still done is because legacy can take an age to dispose of if your company has been doing it for decades.
Does anyone actually watch E3 to see game announcements and trailers and all that?
For the past ten years at least, I've only watched E3 because everyone here was watching it and it was fun to shitpost about it. I can't even imagine watching it alone.
We're so far past the days when I would buy the local gaming magazine to read their reports on E3 and get excited about the games they announced there.
game awards is the new oscars is the new E3 literally millions of people tune in theres no better time to announce big shit go ahead name something that even comes close
Bullshit. Game awards had to beg Nintendo to save their show with Smash announcements and this year, Game awards needed to beg Valve to give away Steam Decks.
Literally nothing of worth ever gets announced at Gamescon, companies will keep their Direct style showcase and whatever is left gets dropped at TGS and then TGA.
Consolidation of game studios. E3 made sense when there were many independent studios, why make it now when the 5 biggest studios bought enough of the market to each make a show of their own?
Phil Spencer literally just confirmed that they're on the board of the ESA and that Microsoft will have their own showcase during the week of E3 at the Dolby Theater (literally across the street from E3)
I get free tickets through work but now im not even sure its worth a 2 hour drive to LA Ill probably go i guess since its going to be the last E3 most likely.
Nintendo Direct, State of Play, whatever Xbox does. With the ability to interact with your core audience the way streaming has allowed, shit like E3 has become irrelevant.
Everybody got upset when Nintendo took all the attention away from their expensive conferences and booths with the Wii reveal. They demanded that it be made more closed so they can control information and hype better but then Nintendo screwed them again when Directs took off so everybody started copying them. Covid finished off the corpse.
The funniest thing about Nintendo Directs, is that they probably would have never have happened if it wasn't for American news media repeatedly lying and defaming Nintendo with misinformation articles.
When they've let in porn companies in there too, not kidding look it out. There is a kid playing minecraft on a screen, few meters away there's a guy jerking off in the newest VR machine.
>pay big bucks to be present on the showfloor >pay big bucks for a concert hall for your presentation >only for jurnos, also need to pay bucks so that they write something nice about you >have all the presentations roughly at the same time, so it‘s easy to be overshadowed
vs.
>pay nothing for online streaming >also have a wider audience >time the schedule to your likings, so that you gave full spotlight
I really wonder why
also, >pay all this money so that you can present one or two new games now, vs. loads of games in the past
you really must be moronic if you don‘t understand this.
Wasn't it always like a venue for game devs/producers to get together and grease the wheels on potential new projects? Social media probably just filled that networking void after Covid shelved E3 for so long
the game industry for big developers has fundamentally changed, a developer just needs one good game and they can coast off it for a decade through live services and microtransactions today unlike in the past when they needed to have multiple complete games published each year to keep revenue coming in.
Crimson Skies
Dead to Rights
Dead or Alive 3
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Ninja Gaiden
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Project Ego
Psychonauts
Steel Battalion
>Nintendo
Super Mario Sunshine
Zelda: The Wind Waker
Zelda: Four Swords
Metroid Fusion
Star Fox Adventures
Metroid Prime
Animal Crossing
>Sony
Contra: Shattered Soldier
Devil May Cry 2
Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance
Ratchet & Clank
Red Faction 2
Shinobi
Silent Hill 3
Sly Cooper
SOCOM: Navy Seals
Suikoden III
How can the current year possibly compete? With remasters, ports, and the same games that keep getting teased year after year without actually coming out?
New 3D Mario game.
New 2D Mario game.
BotW 2.
Splatoon expansion.
Pokemon expansion.
Xenoblade expansion.
Pokemon Legends 2.
2D Metroid.
Some new property.
Silksong Switch & Gamepass shadowdrop.
Modern games are bloated, repetitive, homogenous and modern developers are slow as frick.
We're still waiting for The Last Night and Beyond Good and Evil 2 (E3 2017).
It's due to the general decline of the Western world throughout the 10s.
They are probably glad, they can attempt to shift the blame to Covid and Putin.
Peak E3 was 2005 with the last extremely good one being 2010 and an overall steep decline since then.
>It tooks years of gamers complaining about shitty E3 shows before companies realized that all people wanted was just game trailers and to show off gameplay >what about the funny skits in between the celebrities >it's all expensive stuff and if nobody cares about it why waste money >then realize that since gamers all watch it online anyways why not just skip the show entirely and just show trailers of games in one go
No company wants to be the laughing stock of E3 anymore either. Every company that was embarrassed by the memes are the ones who would quit the show.
This >Nintendo has a really shitty conference >ponders if a live stage event is worth it given most people watch it from home glued to a TV or a computer >switches to nintendo direct format, massive success
And now >2021 happens >no floor demos >no drop in sales or coverage >big 3 all realize that there is no reason to pay E3 thousands of dollars to rent convention space so journalists can play games early when you can just invite the journalists to your own studio
There is no service brought by E3. Nothing whatsoever. It provided a venue back in the 90s and 00s before the boom of the internet, but there is literally no reason for anything about the event to exist anymore. The game awards is probably going to go fully digital next after companies realize attending isn't worth the embarrassment of a rabbi Bill Clinton incident
There's no reason to have floor presentations. Game demos don't actually sell games, and the floor space is a huge waste of money. Not to mention it means you can't bring buggy demos.
Nintendo and MS will align their presentations the same way they did in 2021's digital E3, but for them there is no reason to do anything else.
>companies just make their announcements when they want
But that's inferior to when something like E3 could force their hands to actually show a bunch of stuff.
For instance. If there was a proper E3 last year, I can promise you we would have seen a bunch of Tears of the Kingdom alongside other games. Instead we've gotten nothing and just keep waiting for whatever they might have for their next Nintendo Direct.
>But that's inferior to when something like E3 could force their hands to actually show a bunch of stuff.
It's quite the opposite: forcing companies to "show something" at E3 always was a bad thing. Developers had to waste precious time and resources cobbling together something to show at E3 rather than letting the project flow naturally, and not only that something never reflected the finished project but it was a waste of resources and created false expectations.
Without being forced to show something at an arbitrary date, developers work on their projects at their own pace and release / announce them when they're ready.
I don't think you want a rushed Tears of the Kingdom, let alone a tech demo that will never resemble the finished game.
>why did e3 die?
The pandemic killed it and the industry figured out they don't even have to show demos or even gameplay anymore, just a teaser with a title is enough to drive up hype more than any other thing you could do at e3
>vidya now dominated by the mutts >mutts are making worse and worse games >AAA games get released in a shitty state# >indie just a legal plagiarism >west also generally doesn't understand what a video game is >conclusion: you can't showcase anything interesting in a large-scaled gaming event >E3 is just the representation of modern vidya
good job ruining everything as always you stupid mutts
what purpose does it serve, it made sense before livestreaming was a thing. every developer can just announce games on their social media and instantly have all their fans informed about it and watching the trailer.
it's like asking why the newspaper dispenser died
e3 was a console show primarily, now that the PC increasingly has been recognized as being better and exclusives arent as much a thing anymore for consoles there's nothing to really hold it up. That and people can look things up on the internet.
strong consoomerism losing it's flavor over the course of time
americans are the main market and they are not good at making games
actual video game-ish video games are not popular
vidya is essentially just a movie/grind/social substitute these days
the industry ruined E3 the way they ruined handhelds. both shut a shadow of their former self, never to be redeemed again
Internet
>Sponsored by EA
nothing was lost. nothing was ever had.
Covid cope and the balkanization of mass media all chasing a chimerical audience.
became a marketing show and the marketers all got extremely moronic after 2007 or so, with each successive year being a contest to out-moron last year's moronic shitshow
people can watch ads at home
This and the diminishing returns on hardware generations. We're well past the point where hardware differences don't even matter between brands.
That and games take over half a decade to release nowadays, relying on sheer volume size of the industry and indies between major releases.
it died of cringe
even if e3 decided to not be shit theres no games/hardware to generate interest
Nintendo? Idk.
It was them, they were the first of the big 3 to withdraw
>It was them, they were the first of the big 3 to withdraw
Why do you morons keep making this claim? The opposite is the truth. Nintendo were the last to withdraw and consistently invested the most into E3 of the attending publishers.
They started it but by no means killed it.
That was companies spending half of their time with ads or non-vidya related stuff.
media and journalists gave up any attempt at being anything but a redundant department of marketing.
Fewer and fewer games to announce now, plus they can just do directs on YT. I think part of the problem with E3 is that is moved away from its tradeshow roots and became an advertising platform. Plus
Why E3 though and not the several other gaming events? Too many event and too few games.
They shut down for 3 years due to a cough and proved to the industry it was irrelevant.
Now that they have learned that they can make prerecorded shows that they can hype up themselves without having to compete with others manufacturers they don't need E3 anymore.
So what is it even for now, PC blobs?
You now realize console chads were right all along.
E3 was always a console show. Now they don't have anything to show off so why even show up? What games would Sony present? (lol) Microsoft has no exclusives and Nintendo already has their own thing.7
>All three console makers pulled out
Damn, witnessing E3 getting massacred in real time
It hasn't been good in years so I won't miss it but I hope that doesn't mean they just won't have any sort of mass announcements
Whenever E3 was canceled Nintendo just announced their stuff on Twitter so I fully expect at least them to that again this year
>literally the only reason to watch are out
Kek
>why did e3 die?
it died like more than 10 years ago
the internet and youtube allowed companies to market their games more freely
they also no longer had to make marketable builds for a specific event and could just have their own events whenever
it got over taken by other cons and events
Its a relic of a bygone era as technology advanced and was no longer needed. I dont understand why this is a question every year
I think the bigger issue was that most companies just embarrassed themselves at it.
i will miss e3 cringe kino
Yeah, E3 is like the Guinness Book of World Records.
For a throwaway comment, this was pretty accurate.
>Still theoretically interesting
>But when you open it, it's mostly crap and sponsored fodder
>You don't remember realising it was worthless, or coming to hate it. But now that it's basically gone, you don't care.
I thought it was a fun all-purpose trivia and curiosities book for children. When there's some info worth reading of course, the last edition I read was the 2012.
the guinness book of world records ended up having a lot of people submitting either self harm or animal abuse shit to it just to get attention in le ebin book
>they also no longer had to make marketable builds for a specific event and could just have their own events whenever
They could. But without E3 they don't.
If you haven't noticed. Event though they now can hold their own events whenever, and occasionally do. They mostly just hold all their cards close to their chests. And whenever they do show some game, it's only but a fraction of what you'd usually see at E3, provided it's even more than a single game to begin with. And we just don't get a decent picture of what the market actually has to offer for the coming year.
Everything is spaced out. No or at least extremely little information is concentrated ahead of time. And they all just aim to surprise whenever, and just try not to overlap with other news.
I didn't follow e3 in years. Whatever I'm not the target audience anymore.
t. boomer
Why do game companies no longer use journos as a middleman between them and consumers? It really is a mystery. Anyway here's a clip of an interaction between a journalist and a game dev over a silly joke the dev made during an interview trying to hype up his upcoming game
https://soundcloud.com/ben-kuchera/jaffe-confrontation
why pay to a journo when you already pay to a marketing department and they can put promo mats on social networks themselves?
removing booth babes was the beginning of the end
frick pozzed burgerland game shows.
>booth babes are bad because it sexualize women
>10 years later
>actually women looking like bawds is okay
They simultaneously want to take away anything straight males will like while degrading, debasing and destabilising society. Notice how its only fat ugly women and "women" that go on bawd walks or keep appearing naked? It is why attractive women in games pisses them off more then anything else.
The same gays that cried about booth babes are subscribed to at least one onlyfans page now, I guarantee it.
I'm sure Geoff Keliegh will still be hosting some shill show for you to slop up
yummy wummy dead space clones and chinese mobile games
No one wanted to pay money to share the spotlight so they just produce their own Nintendo direct. Funny to see these same companies flock to Geoff but he might even be paying THEM so I guess it works out.
>E3 bad because... I don't like games!
Everyone who thinks like that should kill themselves
Remember when E3 was held in an airplane hangar in the 00's. This has happened before. The industry did a turn around because they need big tent pole events to attract normies. It will probably come back at some point if the industry is not completely moronic these days.
Companies are scared shitless of something like this happening again at a live show.
and in the end, the cuck caved in, played immortal and said it was great
Um.
They released it on PC. That was the entire issue he was annoyed about.
he was annoyed about no major diablo coming to PC
d4 or resurrected weren't even announced back then
he played POE, wasn't much of a stand up guy after that.
>https://soundcloud.com/ben-kuchera/jaffe-confrontation
i dont remember him saying it was great
Nintendo started their Direct and sony and microshit followed suit
Covid
It gave Squilliam a heart attack every year, so they had to be told to stop being any good.
Devs can't even ship finished games. You expect them to make a show floor demo?
E3 died because the industry is in a state of collapse. AAA development has reached unsustainable levels and is a ticking time bomb.
will he ever stop winning?
Pissed Jose was right
Frick this guy
What's 7 dollar sanchez up to these days
Some girl tried to "me too" him and destroy his career. He lawyered up, brought the receipts, and remained uncancelled.
He does movie reviews and news segments with his two mexican mates.
SJW compilations brainwashed masses of chuds
>Nintendo starts doing directs, doesn't cost anything other than employee time which would have been spent on floor staff anyway and can be pre-recorded to prevent on-stage frick ups
>Snoy realizes they can do absolute state (of play)
>Microsoft realizes they can do the same
E3 completely and unironically is no longer neccesary in modern times. It's a waste of money for everyone involved
Less and less measurable impact from inviting the gaming press to expensive shoulder rubbing events, when you can speak directly to your audience on social media.
Marvel literally bought the best mobile game award on the previous show.
>growing up my older brother and I would dream of attending one day
if only we were old enough back then when vidya was actually good
E3 Thrived in a time when developers actually delivered good games every 2 years, but in the age of 1 game per decade and constant delays it's impossible for Sony/Microsoft to have tons of big announcements every year, so it's easier to just announce/preview games at their own stream events one by one when they're ready, rather than trying to get a bunch at once, every single year for one event.
it's a trade show, CES has essentially taken its place and gaming is dead so (worthwhile) announcements are out the window
>CES has essentially taken its place
E3 was literally created because the video game industry had grown so large that they were taking up too much space at CES and had to spin off into their own trade show.
I guess it has something to do with paying for an absurd amount of money just to have an exhibit on E3 when they could just put their own conference up on the internet for lesser cost and since they're a major video game company, they really don't need spotlight from a struggling expo when 99% of gamers are pretty updated about their latest line-ups.
It's my wild guess, but there could be better internal reasons.
What's the point of a conference these days when video on demand works perfectly fine like it has been doing for Nintendo. I think the only reason conferences are still done is because legacy can take an age to dispose of if your company has been doing it for decades.
Nobody gets the joke anymore
Does anyone actually watch E3 to see game announcements and trailers and all that?
For the past ten years at least, I've only watched E3 because everyone here was watching it and it was fun to shitpost about it. I can't even imagine watching it alone.
We're so far past the days when I would buy the local gaming magazine to read their reports on E3 and get excited about the games they announced there.
Died of feminism and journos cuckery
>NOOOOOOOO WE CANT HAVE SCANTLY DRESSED WOMEN AT OUR AFTER PARTIES
game awards is the new oscars is the new E3 literally millions of people tune in theres no better time to announce big shit go ahead name something that even comes close
Bullshit. Game awards had to beg Nintendo to save their show with Smash announcements and this year, Game awards needed to beg Valve to give away Steam Decks.
E3 is for retail. retail is shrinking and is basically at the point that PC was at in the 00s.
Gamescom ... germany is saving gaming
Literally nothing of worth ever gets announced at Gamescon, companies will keep their Direct style showcase and whatever is left gets dropped at TGS and then TGA.
Consolidation of game studios. E3 made sense when there were many independent studios, why make it now when the 5 biggest studios bought enough of the market to each make a show of their own?
Plus, the game awards is just E3 with an extra gimmick attached to validate its existence.
So, what's the point of this year's E3? Show floor demo from third party publishers?
It all started with the Nintendo Direct and Nintendo was no longer performing at E3 Live Shows
No reason to give the competition the chance to upstage you.
They got rid of Booth Babes.
Phil Spencer literally just confirmed that they're on the board of the ESA and that Microsoft will have their own showcase during the week of E3 at the Dolby Theater (literally across the street from E3)
I get free tickets through work but now im not even sure its worth a 2 hour drive to LA Ill probably go i guess since its going to be the last E3 most likely.
>free tickets through work
which game stop are you a manager of?
Game dev, do they really hand them out to retail people though?
yeah, they used to. i'm not sure the last time that was really a thing, though.
E3 fricking sucks. GDC is where it's at.
>free tickets
are usually the sign of something being extremely off.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised about free plane tickets to the US at this point.
Uh, we’re in the middle of a fricking global pandemic? Im glad E3 is being responsible and putting people’s health and safety before video games.
Yes, it's irresponsible to hold an event like this in the middle of autism pandemic.
Nintendo Direct, State of Play, whatever Xbox does. With the ability to interact with your core audience the way streaming has allowed, shit like E3 has become irrelevant.
Everybody got upset when Nintendo took all the attention away from their expensive conferences and booths with the Wii reveal. They demanded that it be made more closed so they can control information and hype better but then Nintendo screwed them again when Directs took off so everybody started copying them. Covid finished off the corpse.
The funniest thing about Nintendo Directs, is that they probably would have never have happened if it wasn't for American news media repeatedly lying and defaming Nintendo with misinformation articles.
so it's just EA, ubisoft and activision with some indie shit sprinkled in?
I hope whatever it was is fatal enough to keep people from watching a fricking dedicated commercial venue for video games.
>why did e3 die?
Nintendo killed it with the direct. And Dorito Pope burned its remains.
When they've let in porn companies in there too, not kidding look it out. There is a kid playing minecraft on a screen, few meters away there's a guy jerking off in the newest VR machine.
>pay big bucks to be present on the showfloor
>pay big bucks for a concert hall for your presentation
>only for jurnos, also need to pay bucks so that they write something nice about you
>have all the presentations roughly at the same time, so it‘s easy to be overshadowed
vs.
>pay nothing for online streaming
>also have a wider audience
>time the schedule to your likings, so that you gave full spotlight
I really wonder why
also,
>pay all this money so that you can present one or two new games now, vs. loads of games in the past
you really must be moronic if you don‘t understand this.
Wasn't it always like a venue for game devs/producers to get together and grease the wheels on potential new projects? Social media probably just filled that networking void after Covid shelved E3 for so long
>why did e3 die?
because console makers and devs have ONE game to show once every 6 years of production
E3 should be every 5 years
Publishers don't have anything to announce, or to even showcase again. They don't have any games. There are no games.
the game industry for big developers has fundamentally changed, a developer just needs one good game and they can coast off it for a decade through live services and microtransactions today unlike in the past when they needed to have multiple complete games published each year to keep revenue coming in.
>2002 E3
>Microsoft
Crimson Skies
Dead to Rights
Dead or Alive 3
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Ninja Gaiden
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Project Ego
Psychonauts
Steel Battalion
>Nintendo
Super Mario Sunshine
Zelda: The Wind Waker
Zelda: Four Swords
Metroid Fusion
Star Fox Adventures
Metroid Prime
Animal Crossing
>Sony
Contra: Shattered Soldier
Devil May Cry 2
Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance
Ratchet & Clank
Red Faction 2
Shinobi
Silent Hill 3
Sly Cooper
SOCOM: Navy Seals
Suikoden III
How can the current year possibly compete? With remasters, ports, and the same games that keep getting teased year after year without actually coming out?
New 3D Mario game.
New 2D Mario game.
BotW 2.
Splatoon expansion.
Pokemon expansion.
Xenoblade expansion.
Pokemon Legends 2.
2D Metroid.
Some new property.
Silksong Switch & Gamepass shadowdrop.
Nintendo could do it.
They dunked it into a lake a sanitizers and held it under
Black person
Trannies
homosexuals
Normies
Journos
Twitch prostitutes
Modern games are bloated, repetitive, homogenous and modern developers are slow as frick.
We're still waiting for The Last Night and Beyond Good and Evil 2 (E3 2017).
2009 wasn't that bad
It's due to the general decline of the Western world throughout the 10s.
They are probably glad, they can attempt to shift the blame to Covid and Putin.
Peak E3 was 2005 with the last extremely good one being 2010 and an overall steep decline since then.
OH no
Anyway
>It tooks years of gamers complaining about shitty E3 shows before companies realized that all people wanted was just game trailers and to show off gameplay
>what about the funny skits in between the celebrities
>it's all expensive stuff and if nobody cares about it why waste money
>then realize that since gamers all watch it online anyways why not just skip the show entirely and just show trailers of games in one go
No company wants to be the laughing stock of E3 anymore either. Every company that was embarrassed by the memes are the ones who would quit the show.
This
>Nintendo has a really shitty conference
>ponders if a live stage event is worth it given most people watch it from home glued to a TV or a computer
>switches to nintendo direct format, massive success
And now
>2021 happens
>no floor demos
>no drop in sales or coverage
>big 3 all realize that there is no reason to pay E3 thousands of dollars to rent convention space so journalists can play games early when you can just invite the journalists to your own studio
There is no service brought by E3. Nothing whatsoever. It provided a venue back in the 90s and 00s before the boom of the internet, but there is literally no reason for anything about the event to exist anymore. The game awards is probably going to go fully digital next after companies realize attending isn't worth the embarrassment of a rabbi Bill Clinton incident
Game companies realized they can just do their own presentation
I would prefer all these having companies having their reveals at the same time and not sprinkled throughout the year at random times
There's no reason to have floor presentations. Game demos don't actually sell games, and the floor space is a huge waste of money. Not to mention it means you can't bring buggy demos.
Nintendo and MS will align their presentations the same way they did in 2021's digital E3, but for them there is no reason to do anything else.
The internet made it irrelevant: companies just make their announcements when they want, going straight to the point.
>going straight to the point
...and without needing to bribe "journalists".
>companies just make their announcements when they want
But that's inferior to when something like E3 could force their hands to actually show a bunch of stuff.
For instance. If there was a proper E3 last year, I can promise you we would have seen a bunch of Tears of the Kingdom alongside other games. Instead we've gotten nothing and just keep waiting for whatever they might have for their next Nintendo Direct.
>But that's inferior to when something like E3 could force their hands to actually show a bunch of stuff.
It's quite the opposite: forcing companies to "show something" at E3 always was a bad thing. Developers had to waste precious time and resources cobbling together something to show at E3 rather than letting the project flow naturally, and not only that something never reflected the finished project but it was a waste of resources and created false expectations.
Without being forced to show something at an arbitrary date, developers work on their projects at their own pace and release / announce them when they're ready.
I don't think you want a rushed Tears of the Kingdom, let alone a tech demo that will never resemble the finished game.
>why did e3 die?
The pandemic killed it and the industry figured out they don't even have to show demos or even gameplay anymore, just a teaser with a title is enough to drive up hype more than any other thing you could do at e3
it stopped being about gameplay
>vidya now dominated by the mutts
>mutts are making worse and worse games
>AAA games get released in a shitty state#
>indie just a legal plagiarism
>west also generally doesn't understand what a video game is
>conclusion: you can't showcase anything interesting in a large-scaled gaming event
>E3 is just the representation of modern vidya
good job ruining everything as always you stupid mutts
>console companies ducking out hard
One more step to turning e3 into an indie showcase, aka something actually worth watching.
>indie
>worth watching
i'm not going to buy your pixelshit. you shouldn't have left school
oh gee I wonder why
what purpose does it serve, it made sense before livestreaming was a thing. every developer can just announce games on their social media and instantly have all their fans informed about it and watching the trailer.
it's like asking why the newspaper dispenser died
e3 was a console show primarily, now that the PC increasingly has been recognized as being better and exclusives arent as much a thing anymore for consoles there's nothing to really hold it up. That and people can look things up on the internet.
strong consoomerism losing it's flavor over the course of time
americans are the main market and they are not good at making games
actual video game-ish video games are not popular
vidya is essentially just a movie/grind/social substitute these days
the industry ruined E3 the way they ruined handhelds. both shut a shadow of their former self, never to be redeemed again
Covid autism and the big three realizing they cam just do their own conferences/directs from home
youtube has all of the commercials/game trailers
Lack of booth babes