G4's Big Announcement???

[Dodece]

Apostrovich since you seem largely ignorant of the process let me explain it to you. G4 probably had half a dozen guys on the floor at most. That would be three crews one reporter and one camera man. These wonderful guys then have to follow a rigorous schedule. They have set times to be at set places, and they have to make the best use of the time in between to get the best secondary stories that they can. You do realize standing in a line for four hours behind dozens of people just to film a television screen which will show up poorly, and further more discredit the sound due to ambient noise, and the inane banter of a booth babe. Well that would have been a heinous waste of their time.

While you obsess about a single game that launches half a year from now, and might very well stand in that long line. We are talking about professionals who take their jobs serious enough to do them well. With the time you blew on that demo they would have tracked down half a dozen golden interviews, caught a dozen lower key games, and found some wonderful human interest stories in the process. In other words you would come back to the office with ten minutes of footage while these guys came back with two hours of footage. Enough footage in fact to fill up many programs, and augment programs months down the line as games they filmed at the show near release dates.

Halo 3 is a damned phenomena, and you know what I bet you that coverage paid dividends for them in the ratings, and thus they made more money from the coverage. While I sat in line to buy my copy every guy who came to the line was talking about the game coverage on television. That means they were watching one of those channels. You hate the hype fine, but the people at G4 were making use of one of the major gaming events of the year to great effect. Hell they seemed to have gotten you to watch too fuming all the while.

Why film the Microsoft press conferences. Why the hell not they were convenient, and their was no conflict issues. You go into a room you place a camera you then sit back for a couple hours. Thats called low investment high reward.

For your last comment the channel is about catering to a audience which happens to be in a specific market. So their coverage will lean towards what interests that audience. Were they not doing that it would be a case of poor journalism. Know your audience satisfy their needs, and tend to their wants. Why film the TGS the question is why not. There are bound to be a few good stories to be had for a ticket and a few guys on the ground. I am sure they got their moneys worth even if it was a few interviews and first looks at games that might be coming to western markets.