First time poster, long time viewer!
I was trolling the webs and noticed a quote from an E for All information release:
"The event will take place from on August 28-30"
"This year the show will be host to the World Series of Video Games tournaments, a Video Games Live concert, an Into the Pixel art exhibition, and more. Both Sony and Nintendo will also be present at the show."
So, both PAX and E for All are taking place at roughly the same time, but what interested me is that E for All say Nintendo/Sony are guaranteed to be there and on the sponsors page for PAX, only Microsoft is there.
So I'm wondering, is only Microsoft showing up at PAX or will all of the "Big 3" be there? It just seems like they are more or less splitting up between the events.
Insights?
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wtf? Are they trying to step into PAX territory? Uh-uh they didn't. (triple-snap)
Iirc, E for All had a lower-than-expected attendance last year, according to an exhibitor. They might be discouraged from returning.
If you look at the facts though:
PAX 2007: >37000
E4Empty: >18000
Companies that really want to get the most for their money are going to prioritize the new big dog first. Especially considering what a widely negative review was given to E4All. I expect their growth is going to be pretty limited, both in terms of exhibitors (who were really disappointed by the turn out) and attendees (who were really disappointed by almost everything).
Edit: Had to remove comparison photos of the different gamin lounges because my E4All source dumped them.
"In the gamer lounge, you're 33% likely to be a potted plant."
I literally rolled on the floor laughing, so it wasn't an exaggeration.
Technically, we're moving in on their date. They had Labor Day weekend last year, and PAX is traditionally the last weekend of August. This year, those dates have collided. (This is also causing PAX to fall on the same weekend as some other conventions, but yeah.)
PAX has always had the last weekend in august.
E4A was never on that date. Their first year (last year) was early november.
PAX is not stepping on their dates, if anything (since this is the 5th year PAX has been the last weekend in august) they are stepping on PAX's dates.
My bad. Shows how little attention I paid to them, I guess.
Nah, but my shorts are.
Except even Johnny come latelys have some fleeting measure of immediate popularity. Oh well.
what the? when was that picture at e for all taken? that looks a little like me in the red....can't remember wearing red though....
And were the potted plants any good at Mario Kart?
NOES! I WILL SEE IT ALL!
Good luck with that. Just let me know where you're going to be when you explode so I can be close enough to see but be beyond the blast radius.
The stuff on the PAX site isnt the end all list of sponsors, more get announced as we get closer to PAX. Those are just the ones that are confirmed at this point.
There will be updates on the site when more sponsors sign on.
... That's going to be a lot of stuff. (Seriously, where are they going to put it?)
It does, and that's the only place where they could possibly expand to and get enough room.
Not necessarily. There are a lot of large rooms in the WSCTC that didn't get used last year. PAX was sharing space with UPS.
I wonder if the line waiting area was semi-wasted.
I heard the rumor that the space wasn't even planned for PAX, that it was just turned over to handle the line and nothing else.