E3 is through. Wow. And damn your eyes!
So E3 will be no more … Wow.
I'm pretty surprised because it seems like forever now that E3 has been THE big event for games. Game development houses spent months working up demos or pretend demos for E3. Publishers paid bajillions to advertise both there and that they would be there. All kinds of extravagant spending on all kinds crazy stuff. Not to mention every game reviewer worth their salt was was prehyping, overhyping and then super hyping each game that was set to appear and then did appear. Of course, maybe they didn't like spending all of that money.
A lot of money spent hyping games that probably didn't deserve it most cases… But I thought it paid off for them. Apparently it doesn't. I was pretty damn surprised to find out it's been canceled. I just assumed it would be around for as long as games themselves were.
While Next Generation isn't saying it's a rumor or unconfirmed, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't canceled.
Oh, and if it is canceled, damn your eyes! I never got to go!
This is depressing. Ive never been either.
Although if you’re special (i.e. - you have a lot of money to spend or a product to sell), you’ll be invited to the new invite only version with about 10% of the people E3 used to have. Probably much better for meetings and deals, but not half as much for us smucks on the outside for sure.