next-gen.biz— Senior industry sources have revealed to Next-Gen.Biz that the E3 industry event, in its present form, has been cancelled for next year and the foreseeable future.
Jul 30, 2006View in Crawl 4
I don't really mind. Yeah, it sucks, but they said that the reason for this is so all the millions spent on it could go towards making individual companies events better. All I'm personally waiting for as far as press conferences go is X06 so I can see some more Halo 3 footage...
Tim,I think you and a lot of other people don't understand how much these companies spend on E3.Our company have been exibitors at E3 the last couple years and even managing a very small space is terribly expensive.The floorspace, union costs, booth construction, staffing, hotel/travel/food, production costs of special E3 materials, promos, etc...It all adds up quickly... I know that companies like Nintendo, Sony, EA etc... often spend 5+ MM$ on their booth production alone... sure some of this is amortized over a few years but add the staff and all other things I mentioned and you could have a 5-15 million dollar expenditure per year, easily.E3 also has become such a "noisy" event with regard to PR/Announcements that its dominated by the hardware releases like the wii/ps3/360 and major publisher titles... so there's not much there for the smaller guys.
spartacvsJul 30, 2006
I don't really mind. Yeah, it sucks, but they said that the reason for this is so all the millions spent on it could go towards making individual companies events better. All I'm personally waiting for as far as press conferences go is X06 so I can see some more Halo 3 footage...
kokotoy101Jul 30, 2006
Marked as inaccurate because e3 isn't cancelled.
msx2Jul 31, 2006
Videogame Crash! Remember 1983? LOL
mrredsunJul 31, 2006
No one from Best Buy was allowed to go this year. And it certainly was less crowded for it.
jasonlcJul 31, 2006
Tim,I think you and a lot of other people don't understand how much these companies spend on E3.Our company have been exibitors at E3 the last couple years and even managing a very small space is terribly expensive.The floorspace, union costs, booth construction, staffing, hotel/travel/food, production costs of special E3 materials, promos, etc...It all adds up quickly... I know that companies like Nintendo, Sony, EA etc... often spend 5+ MM$ on their booth production alone... sure some of this is amortized over a few years but add the staff and all other things I mentioned and you could have a 5-15 million dollar expenditure per year, easily.E3 also has become such a "noisy" event with regard to PR/Announcements that its dominated by the hardware releases like the wii/ps3/360 and major publisher titles... so there's not much there for the smaller guys.
kd7cnzAug 3, 2006
This information is wrong. Nintendo has already confirmed that they will be there. Checkout more resent news and the E3 website for more information.