E3 Draws Close, Companies Reveal Games Ahead Of Time

Thanks to Planet GameCube for reprinting data revealing the amount and diversity of games to be shown at next week's E3 Expo in Los Angeles. It's noted: "Approximately 1,000 of the nearly 5,000 computer and video game products to be displayed at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo... have never been seen before... survey results indicate that about 40% of products displayed will be for video game consoles, while about one-third will be for personal computers." Many companies are revealing titles before E3, though, with some highlights including most of Sega's line-up (including "SPIKEOUT: Battle Street... and Virtua Quest"), a list of 23 new EA titles, including new Timesplitters 3 details and a first look at Catwoman, THQ's new info on Destroy All Humans!, Rockstar's announcement of Midnight Club 3:DUB Edition, Activision's showing of X-Men Legends, and UbiSoft's announcement of Prince Of Persia 2.

Comments

Market saturation..

[Anonymous Coward]

1,000 of the nearly 5,000 computer and video game products

5,000 video games. Five thousand. Assuming that this is an entire year's supply of games, this means that 14 games a *day* will be coming out over the next year. Does anyone else think that this might be a stupid number? (and odds are that less than 50% of the coming year's games are going to be showing at E3).

I might buy six games a year. 6/5000 = 0.12 percent. I like games, but how the hell is *anyone* supposed to keep up with this market?

Re:Units

[NeuroKoan]

It boggles the mind.

Well, the Golden Gate bridge is 8,981 across (counting the approaches, and I think the author was) and 90 feet wide for a grand total of 808,290 square feet.

So, E3 Expo has had roughly 5.57 Golden Gate Bridges filled with tech booths in the past decade.

Impressive! (but not quite as much as 520 times)

E3 will rock this year

[incubusnb]

i'm hoping to hear more from Rockstar about about GTA: San Andreas and NARC, specifically screenshots and Videos, i'm also really interested in seeing if we can Finally get a confirmed car list for GT4(nobody post that list thats been passed around for the past 6 months, its not real, its just a Wishlist), maybe even some news about Ferarri and Lambourgini's Licenses.

other than that, i'm hoping for a Fallout 3 Announcement, news about Jade Empire, Fable, KOTOR2, and maybe a few more Details about FFXII.

i just hope this isn't just the year of Sequels and remakes, i'd like to see some good Honest Original Material, Jade Empire and Fable sound like a good start but i really hope some more devs start jumping into the unknown more this year.

oh, and there better be a Gran Turismo for the PSP, that would make me a Garanteed PSP Customer