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E3 Replacement

FitzFitz Registered User new member
edited February 2007 in Games and Technology
So, what's our next all-powerful video game convention?Other than PAX of course... hehe :oops:

Dare we move to E4?! will the warp drives be able to maintain the kind of energy needed to move to E4?

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  • fogeymanfogeyman Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    E for All Expo (formerly named GamePro Expo) is being touted as the new E3. I have no idea if it will succeed; they do need a better website, however.

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  • bruinbruin Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    It's not like E3 is gone, there's just going to be less people going. I think there's still going to be a ton of huge announcements and stuff.

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  • Robert KhooRobert Khoo Registered User, ClubPA staff
    edited February 2007
    For the record, my official response is:

    Pfffft.

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  • crash5scrash5s Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    E3 isn't gone, and in fact I think shrinking it down was a good move. As it was to many people who shouldn't have been there were, and it was turning into a circus.

    There are still a lot of expo events where developers can show their products (far better then at E3) which are better oriented for the actual press, instead of "hey random person who works at gamestop look at this big display and boobies!"

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    The big problem is that the e3 timeframe made it a perfect time to announce games. You could announce games for the summer that were going to be out shortly, and you could announce all of your holiday titles without having to present "final versions."

    PAX, while big, is too late for the summer rush and gives devs no time to build hype for xmas games. Any other expo would need to be around May to really work with the same level of "announce frenzy" that e3 did.

    I think there'll still be a good chunk of games announced at e3, but significantly less media. In fact, this is kind of silly to talk about now, as we'll have to see what all of the different shows actually DO before we know which is going to be essentially the "new e3."

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  • etoychestetoychest Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    It's all about GDC.

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  • crash5scrash5s Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    The big problem is that the e3 timeframe made it a perfect time to announce games. You could announce games for the summer that were going to be out shortly, and you could announce all of your holiday titles without having to present "final versions."

    I think it did a lot of damage though in that aspect. Since everything came out at once a lot of smaller titles didn't get enough press. And larger games, got tons of press even if they were all booth fluff and no content. Plus developers felt that had to show a game there.

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  • LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    crash5s wrote:
    There are still a lot of expo events where developers can show their products (far better then at E3) which are better oriented for the actual press, instead of "hey random person who works at gamestop look at this big display and boobies!"

    Hey. They started to fix that this last year...

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  • scootchscootch Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    etoychest wrote:
    It's all about GDC.

    GDC is amazing.

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    as a dude who had to work the floor of e3, i say good riddance. if this means i get to sit down to talk about my game, or even let our pr people do it, so much the better. id love to go to gdc, just to get more info about the production side of everything.

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  • TiemlerTiemler Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Legacy wrote:
    crash5s wrote:
    There are still a lot of expo events where developers can show their products (far better then at E3) which are better oriented for the actual press, instead of "hey random person who works at gamestop look at this big display and boobies!"

    Hey. They started to fix that this last year...

    Yeah, they put the boobies on the big display. All about synergy.

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  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I don't really care about E3's downsizing. The only reason I look forward to E3 every year is for Nintendo's pre-E3 conference, and they're still going to have those.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Robert Khoo wrote:
    For the record, my official response is:

    Pfffft.
    lies, your official response was printed in Edge, and something to the tune of "we don't want to be the new E3, but we sure are getting big"

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  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    Robert Khoo wrote:
    For the record, my official response is:

    Pfffft.

    No Robert, tell us how you really feel.

    Can you elaborate on that?

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  • bruinbruin Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4656&Itemid=2

    Tokyo Game Show grows to 4 day event.

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Just_Bri_Thanks wrote:
    Robert Khoo wrote:
    For the record, my official response is:

    Pfffft.

    No Robert, tell us how you really feel.

    Can you elaborate on that?
    That's so Khoo!

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