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E3 2022 Cancelled: What do I do with this bingo card now?
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Whelp.
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
You mean I got to make a Summer Games Fest thread? Just not the same man...
Well now we don’t have a guaranteed day for a Nintendo Direct; what are we going to do now?!?
Nothing of value was lost
While I mostly agree, I will miss the E3 hype train ( (c) 8-4 Play).
Pajaro Pete
(He/Himbo)
Ah, instead of a bunch of announcements over the course of like four day in June, it's going to dozens of corporate livestreams across two months.
Pajaro Pete
(He/Himbo)
i think the pandemic also hurt it, but ya between nintendo doing the "a demo will be available on the eshop later today" and "treehouse segments giving you the experience of playing an e3 demo on the floor" they ate e3 up
E3 had relevance once upon a time as the event where the big game announcements happened, but with other big events gradually becoming a thing and more and more devs embracing digital announcements it's no longer relevant.
Nintendo doesn't need an E3 week to run a Direct and Sony has gone from using it for 2015's FF7 Remake/The Last Guardian/Shenmue 3 triple whammy to not even bothering to set up one lousy display.
We don't need E3 anymore.
Nintendo doesn't need an E3 week to run a Direct and Sony has gone from using it for 2015's FF7 Remake/The Last Guardian/Shenmue 3 triple whammy to not even bothering to set up one lousy display.
We don't need E3 anymore.
As soon as the internet began killing traditional media, E3's days were numbered. Honestly amazed it lasted this long.
I've got a lot of fond memories, anxiously pouring over every page of EGM's E3 issues, looking at fuzzy tiny photos and imagining these new games in motion and what it must be like to play them. But what we've got now is better. And it's nice to be able to curate the info coming out of these myself instead of wondering why niche-game-I-love only gets a small three sentence blurb when I can go online and watch a whole video in 4K showing me exactly what's up.
Also remember booth babes? Trade shows suck.
Also remember booth babes? Trade shows suck.
E3 has been cancelled for a year once before, and currently they're planning on coming back in 2023. It's hard not to see the writing on the wall, whether it chugs along for a few more years or 2023 and beyond never materialize and it officially dies; I'm not sure there's really a route forward for E3 to keep existing without slapping the name on something that's essentially completely different that shambles along zombie-like for another decade or two, like Napster or Limewire or something. But who knows.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Don't forget how as late as 2019 CES rescinded an award from a vibrator company (the header image is a vibrator FYI) for being immoral when they were booth babes and a RealDoll at the same show that were totally okay. The woman who owned the company got the award back but it really made the bullshit of it clear.