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Major Publishers Avoid E For All Expo
Though Electronic Arts and Nintendo are planning to attend the first consumer-oriented 'E for All' Expo this October, neither Sony or Microsoft have plans to show games at the event. Other smaller publishers like Capcom, Sega, Midway, and Sony Online Entertainment have also stated they won't be attending. "While not making any official statements, at least one publisher indicated to GamesIndustry.biz that it questioned the return on investment based on the number of attendees and the cost. There were also some concerns with the proximity of the event to the TGS. IDG [E For All's Parent] could not be reached for comment. "
the monopoly now? I for one welcome our ah screw it.
I mean really, how many versions of '1001 Solitaire games and minor variations' do we need? Or 'Barbie: $30 Advertisement for Mattel' clones?
'Loose' is when your pants are three sizes too big. 'Lose' is when you misuse 'loose'.
New convention without track record has difficulty attracting exhibits. Uhh, news at 11?
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The last thing that a big company wants is for the general public to see its beta code. Reps from other companies, or from retailers, are much more likely to realize that what they're seeing is not a representation of what they're getting on the shelves six to nine months later.
This expo will be entirely worth it so long as Super Smash Brothers Brawl has a playable demo present.
All those other companies are stepping out because they know there will be, and they know they cannot repel firepower of that magnitude.
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I don't know, I could really get behind an "E for All" campaign. Yes, even fat chicks and sexist jerks. Because, they need lovin' too.
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Well maybe all those publishers do not want to take part in the E For All Expo because there are already enough gaming expos around?
Besides the mentioned Tokoy Game Show, there are still the revamped E3 and the Game Developers Conference and there is the big and now very popular and established Games Convention in Germany as a consumer expo.
Throw in the more specialised ones like Blizzcon, Quakecon or PAX and there does not seem to be a great need and certainly not enough money in the advertising budget of companies for yet another gaming expo...
Nintendo and EA are two of the biggest forces in the gaming industry anyway, so the fact that they're attending should be bigger news than the lesser players not attending.
How is this flamebait? Obviously some moderator has never actually played any Wii games. They've even managed to turn Metroid Prime 3 into a collection of minigames - some of them as exciting as "turn the door handle". (Hold Wiimote facing up, turn it clockwise 90 degrees. What innovation! They've emulated a door knob!)
The Wii is kind enough to record what's been played on it for how long. Mine has seen one game played on it since the novelty wore off: "Everybody Vote Channel". I'm not kidding.
...the loss of Booth Babes, personally. Before I'm ragged for being sexist, count the number of commercials using models of both sexes to sell products.
Tech cons USED to know their crowd and appeal to us before the politically-correct sweep rendered them bland.
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
It sounds like you never even made it past the first hour of Prime 3.
The Wii is a minigame device. Sometimes it plays games, but that's like saying sometimes Andy Dick doesn't snort coke.
You misspelled "cocks".
HTH.
But few for E?
There's gotta be a ST2 reference round here somewhere...
There have been a couple of comments on how game "X" isn't going to be there or that company "Y" isn't going because they don't have any "E rated" games.
AFAIK: "E for All Expo" is just suppose to be a clever name, not a rating limit (but the fact that I'm not sure about this shows that they really are not marketing this fact well).
Spell cheek you've failed me four the last thyme!
With the death of the original E3 -- and the issues that brought its death about -- game companies decided the whole thing was a huge waste of cash. While PAX subsists on the reputation of its creators and their friends to draw in ridiculous crowds of what are functionally fanboys and GDC will always survive as the high-brow convention almost aimed directly at press and developers, there simply isn't room for a convention that just appeals to the general public. Microsoft knows it, Sony knows it, but of course Nintendo is trying to leverage its new "games for everyone on the planet" image to draw in Ma and Pa MidwesternFamily so they can show off the latest iteration of whatever they want you to point a stylus at this time. It will be successful for them assuming they actually show off something new, but I predict this will be the only year the show actually occurs.
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