Tuesday, December 12th 2023
No More E3: The Event Stands Permanently Cancelled
Entertainment Software Association (ESA), organizers of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, announced that the show stands permanently cancelled. The annual expo of video gaming, e-sports, and all forms of interactive art, was an important landmark in the tech industry's calendar; and saw major announcements of new games, studios, platforms, and technology, with a generally mid-year (June) schedule, generally right after Computex. From the looks of it, organizing the event viably since the COVID crisis had been a problem. In an announcement on Twitter through the official E3 handle, ESA announced the end of E3 with a brief statement saying "After more than two decades of E3, each one bigger than the last, the time has come to say goodbye. Thanks for the memories. ggwp"
Source:
E3 (Twitter)
16 Comments on No More E3: The Event Stands Permanently Cancelled
I was more hoping they would figure out a way to revamp it, but at least for the time being, it seems to be cancelled.
Same with like props in movies, movies make more money then ever before but they "have to" cheapen out on how they are made...
Games, movies, music, are all more popular than ever before. But the cost of making a top quality AAA item (measured in terms of visuals, audio, and all the rest) has gone up faster than profits did. So we get a divided state of things. To bother with the risk of an AAA product or event it has to deliver on a level it couldn't in the past. So we get AAA stuff made for the lowest common denominator to generate the most cash, cheap to crank out indie stuff where you can take risks, and then a bunch of mid level junk that fades away.
That's the theme. Everywhere. Mainstream means big money and big crowds and that means poverty in execution. Its as simple as that. You get watered down versions of what could be, or there's just too much and it all drowns each other in a cacophony of advertising.
Would love to have a big global show, anyway, instead of every company making their own as the bestest thing evar (last Blizzcon, lul).
Guess tubers will have to make their own E3.
That magic feeling simply isn't there anymore.
Not the show's fault, I think, it's just that the industry went a direction I can't get on board with (i.e., it actually became an industry).
As well, with online-only reveals and smaller, tighter public events becoming much cheaper to host at a studio's venue, there's admittedly little reason left to even put effort towards a centralized event like this.
Still, I do miss the days of being able to go on occasion and get some of the E3-exclusive goodies, photos with hired cosplayers and booth babes/dudes, shaking hands with game devs and getting some insight, and trialing new game demos and early builds.