E3: What's the Deal?
I heard that it would it be any more E3 anymore. Is this true or not
--Neil
It isn't true. E3 has undergone some changes, yes, but it's still around. How's it different? To start, it's now held in July in Santa Monica instead of the LA Convention Center in May. The number of people attending has been downsized too. An estimated four to five thousand industry folk are going this year as opposed to the 50-80 thousand that showed up in earlier years. This population difference is because E3 is now an "Invite Only" event, whereas before it seemed that anyone who touched an electronic device once could get in for the right price.
Other changes to E3 include its presentational format (games will be showcased in a single hangar with restrictions on booth size), its appointment structure (publishers will now show off product in seven or eight hotels spread across a three-mile radius), and its importance (first parties will still make their big announcement, but third parties will unveil most of theirs at their own events prior to July or after the show at bigger venues like Comic-Con).
That last difference is a prediction not a fact, but I'm extremely confident in it.
--Jeremy
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