The fact that you got invited makes me jealous :|

The fact that you got invited makes me jealous :|

However, this is the first year of this new “revamped” E3… so anything can happen. This new show can fail. Crazy spectacle or not the old E3 was a great showcase for companies to show off their products to the unwashed masses and get the word out. This new show and it’s revamped concept will most likely not be as proficient in doing the same.

“Big guys” yes… “little guys”, maybe not so much. Might not be worth it for smaller publishers/developers to make their way out to this new E3 if there is less to see, less to do, less people talk to, and less to “network” with. It’ll be interesting to see who shows up and who doesn’t… I’d bet there’ll be some pretty decent-sized publishers/developers that decide not to show up to the new E3.

Just because the big four (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and EA) bitched about how much the old E3 cost them (no one put a gun to EA’s head to spend tens of thousands of dollars for just a SINGLE large HD projection screen installed in their area, let alone five or six) and how it isn’t worth the money that they spent… it doesn’t mean that the little guys felt the same way.

The first of anything is always the most susceptible to fail. The first new E3 show is no exception to that.

Now “E for All”… it’ll be interesting to see how that show holds up for it’s first year and beyond. Obviously so far not a lot of major players have really jumped on board (excluding Nintendo that has already been announced as the flagship contributor) and again, it might not be worth it for the smaller publishers/developers to jump on board with this show either.

However, with public shows like Penny Arcade’s PAX growing every year… I can’t help but feel that this “new” E3 is just a step in the wrong direction akin to the decision to bar retail employees two years ago when they really should have barred the anime/online magazines and websites (a lot of which were just made-up fronts or were put up two weeks before registration) from being able to attend and enforce badge/ID checks (so people couldn’t use badges that weren’t theirs) at each of the halls. That would have solved the overcrowding issue, which was stated as one of the factors why they moved E3 to this new more “intimate” format.

Anyways, like I said… it’ll be interesting to see how all this plays out.

However, this is the first year of this new “revamped” E3… so anything can happen. This new show can fail. Crazy spectacle or not the old E3 was a great showcase for companies to show off their products to the unwashed masses and get the word out. This new show and it’s revamped concept will most likely not be as proficient in doing the same.

“Big guys” yes… “little guys”, maybe not so much. Might not be worth it for smaller publishers/developers to make their way out to this new E3 if there is less to see, less to do, less people talk to, and less to “network” with. It’ll be interesting to see who shows up and who doesn’t… I’d bet there’ll be some pretty decent-sized publishers/developers that decide not to show up to the new E3.

Just because the big four (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and EA) bitched about how much the old E3 cost them (no one put a gun to EA’s head to spend tens of thousands of dollars for just a SINGLE large HD projection screen installed in their area, let alone five or six) and how it isn’t worth the money that they spent… it doesn’t mean that the little guys felt the same way.

The first of anything is always the most susceptible to fail. The first new E3 show is no exception to that.

Now “E for All”… it’ll be interesting to see how that show holds up for it’s first year and beyond. Obviously so far not a lot of major players have really jumped on board (excluding Nintendo that has already been announced as the flagship contributor) and again, it might not be worth it for the smaller publishers/developers to jump on board with this show either.

However, with public shows like Penny Arcade’s PAX growing every year… I can’t help but feel that this “new” E3 is just a step in the wrong direction akin to the decision to bar retail employees two years ago when they really should have barred the anime/online magazines and websites (a lot of which were just made-up fronts or were put up two weeks before registration) from being able to attend and enforce badge/ID checks (so people couldn’t use badges that weren’t theirs) at each of the halls. That would have solved the overcrowding issue, which was stated as one of the factors why they moved E3 to this new more “intimate” format.

Anyways, like I said… it’ll be interesting to see how all this plays out.

I’m pretty sure they’ll have some big guys attending the show.Also looking forward to E for all later this year.

I’m pretty sure they’ll have some big guys attending the show.Also looking forward to E for all later this year.

Gotta rememer that, y’all. :D

Gotta rememer that, y’all. :D