Sony to skip E3 again in 2020

[The_Liquid_Laser]

drkohler said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

 Surely they can afford to skip the biggest gaming event of they year when they are launching a new system?  Right?

Joke post?

2018/19 attendance numbers (from a ZhugeEX tweet):

Gamescom : 373k
ChinaJoy : 365k
Brazil Games Show : 325k
Taipei Game Show : 320k
Paris Games Week : 316k
Tokyo Game Show : 262k
G-Star Korea : 235k
......

E3 : 66k

For US, E3 might be everything, for the rest of the world (where Sony sells the most of its consoles), it is almost irrelevant. E3 money is better spent elsewheres.

E3 has that kind of attendence, because the event is intentionally made exclusive.  Again, this is a lot like saying the Oscars are not a major event, because it is mostly just Hollywood types attending.  Meanwhile, about 30m people watch the Oscars live and countless more watch highlights, red carpet footage and other similar stuff.  It is the biggest event of the year for the movie industry, because of all the eyeballs drawn in.  The actual attendance doesn't matter as much.

I did a quick Youtube search for highlights of E3, Gamescom and Tokyo Game Show in 2018.  The highest results that came up were

E3 - 1300k
Gamescom - 79k
Tokyo Game Show - 59k

Clearly E3 is the biggest gaming event, worldwide, by a huge margin.

Last edited by The_Liquid_Laser - on 14 January 2020