Comment Re:Failure (Score 1) 57
Your comment highlights how E3 had evolved into a show without a focus, and this year's event didn't serve to sharpen that focus, unfortunately.
One of the great things about the spectacle that was the former E3 was that it gave the game industry a ton of coverage from the US mainstream press. What conference exists now that can do that? None of them really - though I hope that VGXpo, PAX, or E for All continue to grow and are able to fill in that gap.
As a B2B publisher/developer event E3 was a failure since many developers were not there; that role seems to have migrated to GDC (in the US). As an event for talking to retailers/distributors I've heard that the new show is too late in the year to be particularly useful.
As an event for journalists, most of the publishers have found that it is cheaper and more effective to have a day-long exclusive event and fly all the journalists out to it.
So what again is the purpose for E3? :-/
One of the great things about the spectacle that was the former E3 was that it gave the game industry a ton of coverage from the US mainstream press. What conference exists now that can do that? None of them really - though I hope that VGXpo, PAX, or E for All continue to grow and are able to fill in that gap.
As a B2B publisher/developer event E3 was a failure since many developers were not there; that role seems to have migrated to GDC (in the US). As an event for talking to retailers/distributors I've heard that the new show is too late in the year to be particularly useful.
As an event for journalists, most of the publishers have found that it is cheaper and more effective to have a day-long exclusive event and fly all the journalists out to it.
So what again is the purpose for E3?
