E3 - Downsizing? Cancelled?
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Bad_Boy said:
Those pre-show press conferences were where most of the news was broken anyways, not on the exhibit floor.
But what will be missed will be hands-on reports from enthusiasts sites which are often more informative than the media reports.
Plus someone pointed out that smaller developers and publishers, as much as it was a hardship on them, got exposure that they might otherwise have difficulty getting.
5000 attendees at a single LA hotel? Can a single hotel accommodate that many at a time or are they talking cumulatively over several days?
E3 was never for the public. Try PAX or something made for public access if you want to go.ninzel said:So the new format is even less accesible to the public. Great progress.
Microsoft made the last E3 more about the public than ever, I think. I would be quite surprised if Nintendo and Sony do not follow suit and MS tries to outdo their previous performance.
Considering of the public, a few hundred thousand got to see E3's products in the flesh (though as I recall it wasn't an open invite anyway), and countless millions saw all the same stuff on internet websites, it's a tiddly little proportion of the public that E3 reached through direct contact. It was supposed to be a media event for just that reason - take the info to the press, and the press take it to the rest of the world.ninzel said:So the new format is even less accesible to the public. Great progress.
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How can some of you think this is a good thing?
I seem to recall that many previously unknown games garnered great attention during E3. I don't think these sort of games will be able to steal the spot light if they don't have a place to blow people away with their unexpected greatness.
I seem to recall that many previously unknown games garnered great attention during E3. I don't think these sort of games will be able to steal the spot light if they don't have a place to blow people away with their unexpected greatness.
Shifty Geezer said:
YA but you know that if you've ever been to an auto show there is no substitute for being there and seeing stuff in person. And it's a fun day out with friends of similar interest,it's an event.I can read Car and Driver all year long but there's still more excitement for the yearly auto show. All the little extra stuff that comes with going to show's is also cool.
Edit: and the less accesible it is to the public the less the public will embrace gaming. From a business perspective it's in their best interest to make it as open and accesible as possible.
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For sure. It'd be nice in that regard, but very uneconomical for the runners of the show! As has been suggested, what's really needed is smaller, national shows/tours. It's not like there's only 3 or 4 auto shows in the world, so why only 3 or 4 gaming shows (apart from the fact the auto industry dwarfs the gaming industry and they can afford it!)ninzel said:
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wco81 said:
Exactly!
The last thing a producer needs is to have would-be consumers critiquing its products and services before they come to market. Consumers, after all, do not share the same bias -- err, sense of balance -- that hearsay marketing needs, downplaying bad points with good ones. *
Moreover, to suddenly break with tradition (and make a public spectacle private) suggests something even more ominous: the industry may be bracing for a recession. It doesn't take a CFO to see that market expansion amid rising prices is a tough sell. :neutral:
* [size=-2]In the publication industry bias is institutional. An Editor-in-Chief cannot be neutral when talking about the products of her (advertising) clients.[/size]
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Ziff Davis Announces Online and Print Media Alliance with Microsoft
Case in point:
Case in point:
chroniceyestrain
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How is that any different than the official Playstation or Xbox magazine?
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EDIT: Okay, I've changed my mind. I only had a hunch about this before, but it seems to be materializing ...
Microsoft's alliance with Ziff Davis Media is quite brilliant actually. Both expect Games for Windows to garner a readership / circulation that's well beyond your typical video game magazine.
Now promoting one's wares via a circular (or in this case an 'independent' rag) is to be expected. But forming a marketing alliance with its publisher (whose periodicals are not limited to the video game industry) is not. It's a new twist in next-gen warfare, and one that could broaden Microsoft's web of propaganda at its competitor's expense.
As a consequence, editors of other Ziff Davis publications can promote Microsoft Games without retribution, as DanaJ, managing editor of the Official PlayStation Magazine seems to be doing, unveiling her intentions of picking up an Xbox 360 this November instead of PlayStation 3.
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Microsoft's alliance with Ziff Davis Media is quite brilliant actually. Both expect Games for Windows to garner a readership / circulation that's well beyond your typical video game magazine.
Now promoting one's wares via a circular (or in this case an 'independent' rag) is to be expected. But forming a marketing alliance with its publisher (whose periodicals are not limited to the video game industry) is not. It's a new twist in next-gen warfare, and one that could broaden Microsoft's web of propaganda at its competitor's expense.
As a consequence, editors of other Ziff Davis publications can promote Microsoft Games without retribution, as DanaJ, managing editor of the Official PlayStation Magazine seems to be doing, unveiling her intentions of picking up an Xbox 360 this November instead of PlayStation 3.
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