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Rumor: E3 about to be cancelled, official announcement coming soon (Update: Officially Confirmed)
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This wouldn't be terrible, IMO. It's an opportunity to drop the fluff and share the most important details.
Banning large gatherings of people is just the kick in the pants VR needs!
No disrespect for anyone's health intended. This is the correct decision given what we currently know.
Wouldn't that mean we will see more "..."direct hype/speculation threads that lead to nowhere.
Yea i would guess that the week of e3( week of june 9th) well get a pre recorded presentation from ea, ubi, ms that week. The e3 week is way to important when it comes to media coverage.
I just hope that IF e3 is indeed cancelled, that the esa is also sharing how they will fill in that week. If they dont the non gaming media will probably think all is cancelled.
they should. Its a good, safe way to capitalize on e3 time. I imagine many of ubisoft and ea's announcements are reliant on the official unveiling of these systems so that has to happen first.
RIP E3. Even if they try and return next year, it'll be barebones event in comparison with its past.
Truly end of an era.
Truly end of an era.
If there's no E3 though, is it really? They could just say screw it and do it at their own pace, and have the benefit of not lumping it in with other announcements so they get the spotlight.
oh, you mean when the west coast wakes up hehe. :P its brunch in the east coast right now
Well then. I always thought of that example of something that went absolutely viral and was one of the reasons for Sony's runaway success, but if it was not a part of their conference then indeed it might not be necessary to attend.
Hot Take - this could end up being a good thing for E3. Now they have 15 months to 'soul search', mend burnt bridges, and figure out how to come back strong in 2021. Putting on bad, underwhelming event this year considering where both industry and public perception are would've been disastrous.
The problem with that is that it could really confuse consumers. A lot of people take one or 2 days off from work to bingewatch the conferences. For decades it has always been that.
I think esa would rather have them all in one week and still call it e3. If they dont than its 100% garanteed that e3 wont be back ever and i dont think esa would lets that money go.
What happened? I thought NeoGAF and ResetERA always, always, always loved E3. The boards are notoriously busy whenever E3 rolls around.
People are allowed to change their minds. E3 refocusing into a half-assed PAX that pandered to tastemakers and was lighter on the reveals, along with things like Sony not attending, means that modern E3 is barely a shadow of the glorious E3s of old.
Add into it that the ESA is a shit organization that does things like support shady causes and dox reporters, along with increased knowledge of the crunch required by studios for E3 and then the bait and switch of stuff like Anthem and you understand why some people are perfectly happy letting E3 die. Because we're never getting the classic E3 back.
So, yeah. Just because some people are approving of this move doesn't mean these people didn't like E3 at one point. They just don't like what it's become.
I still love the atmosphere of E3, but in recent years it's become increasingly apparent that having every major announcement appear during a one week period in June isn't the best way to go about things, for both the consumer and the publishers
There's the competition for attention, the press conference hours that basically put the middle finger up at all of Europe, it's pretty expensive to go in person even if you are a member of the press, developers are pressured to get demos out for games that are still months away from being "done"... Combine that with the ESA messing up big time in a variety of ways and it's not exactly appealing.
And things like Nintendo Directs, PSX, even the likes of PAX have proven that people will still tune in and watch your announcements even if they're not at E3. If anything I imagine the analytics show it's better to do just that.
So yeah, while it'll be a shame to lose "Gamer Christmas", I think it's much more enjoyable and logical to have everything spread out over the entire year and I won't really miss it at the end of the day.
There's the competition for attention, the press conference hours that basically put the middle finger up at all of Europe, it's pretty expensive to go in person even if you are a member of the press, developers are pressured to get demos out for games that are still months away from being "done"... Combine that with the ESA messing up big time in a variety of ways and it's not exactly appealing.
And things like Nintendo Directs, PSX, even the likes of PAX have proven that people will still tune in and watch your announcements even if they're not at E3. If anything I imagine the analytics show it's better to do just that.
So yeah, while it'll be a shame to lose "Gamer Christmas", I think it's much more enjoyable and logical to have everything spread out over the entire year and I won't really miss it at the end of the day.
I'd wager a lot are lying to themselves if they said they wouldn't like a E3 with the big 3 in attendance.
I guess, I think people would adjust pretty quickly though.
Yep. I think that was going to happen anyway, eventually, but this will accelerate the process by a few years. Publishers will move away from revealing stuff at E3 this year by necessity, and some of them will not move back.
It definitely did that, but at the same time, it also buried a lot of news. It always seemed like even the most informed gamers would miss out on several announcements from E3. That was one of the reasons why the industry started to develop a habit of making announcements in the week (or, nowadays, weeks) leading up to E3, to separate out those games from the noise of the conference.
If the industry just decided that late May to early July was Announcement Season and did some rough coordination to ensure that they weren't stepping on each others toes too badly, that'd probably have most of the benefits of E3.
The Direct was a replacement for live press conferences. Nintendo was still at E3.
Well the problem is with e3 publishers usually take the time in europe into account. Except for sony the last 3years.
But still i dont think esa will roll over so easily. I think they rather do the converences and stream it on the e3 youtube page so that the name can still be relevent.
If they skip this year its basically e3 is dead. And i mean dead dead, not e3 2007 dead.
It's a message board. Everyone hates everything.
Also, seeing your username and avatar combo here for the first time is breaking my brain.
People love what E3 was, not so much what it was on the path to becoming.
That's too bad for the year where the next-gen consoles are planned to be launched, unless they delay their launch to next year (and increase specs meanwhile) which I am fine with it.
E3 2020 Is Officially Canceled Due To Coronavirus Concerns
After sources suggested as much, the ESA has officially canceled this year's E3 due to the coronavirus.
www.gamespot.com
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