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New E3 Show Announced - Smaller and Invite-only
fiorenza writes "The ESA has announced the date and venue for the new E3 show, which is to be renamed the E3 Media and Business Summit. The show has move moved from May to July, and next year will take place on July 11-13 in Santa Monica, California. Doug Lowenstein, the president of the ESA, said that past attendees wanted a smaller more formal show that would be oriented to the media instead of the consumer, so it will now be invitation-only and many of the 'events' will actually take place in hotel suites. It looks like other gaming shows will need to step in if the glitz and glitter of E3 is to be saved."
This just means it will be more of a chalenge getting in, unlike the last two years for me :p
Its a double-edged sword. We're still getting just as much gaming news as at last year's E3 and its nice to know the publishers won't be wasting money on "booth babes" and other promotional non-sense. Its still a shame, E3 turned from a media expo to a gaming holiday. This is just going closer to its roots.
No, that's E3 getting back to how it was originally.
lemonade was a popular drink and it still is
"What is the purpose of E3?"
When I working at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari for six years, the PR department put together a video from the company's E3 party. The management team was plastered, the vice president was on stage doing a showgirl routine in fishnet stockings, and a PR girl was grabbing her crotch while slurring through a song. I stopped going to the company Christmas party when my date and I left early as the cops were coming into the club to haul my supervisor out for allowing an underaged employee to have a drink.
When I working at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari for six years, the PR department put together a video from the company's E3 party.The management team was plastered, the vice president was on stage doing a showgirl routine in fishnet stockings, and a PR girl was grabbing her crotch while slurring through a song. .....aaand the YouTube link for that is? That sounds like some of the best entertainment to come out of Infogrames in a long time!
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It looks like other gaming shows will need to step in if the glitz and glitter of E3 is to be saved."
Does the glitz and glitter need to be saved? Have you ever played a game and said "I wish they didn't work so hard on this game. If only they had rushed it out to stores prematurely or had fewer people working on it, they would have had more money for E3 glitz and glitter."
That glitz money has to come from somewhere.
Why? What's the point of 17 web sites having "booth babe specials" and regurgitating what everyone else has? Or of actual journalists (or at least the best the games media can scrounge up) getting real floor-time with the demonstrators and games. Or more budget being put towards people who can actually talk about the games, or a few more TVs for videos or demos?
So, uh, yeah. This is hardly the end of gaming. In fact, the lack of stupid distractions will probably help us actually, I don't know, be informed.
You want a party? Organize a party. This is a media event that simply got out of hand, and is being reeled back to where it should be.