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SegataSanshiro on 04 May 2017
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Zoombael said:
Jumpin said:

E3 is obsolete with everyone online and able to get the news themselves. I am surprised it hasn't died yet, considering companies have bigger marketing opportunities available to them for significantly less time/money cost and effort.

Certainly not. Conventions like E3 and Gamescom represent the possibility to reach a large audience of international press and consumer with a single hour long event and create a maximum of buzz. Even more so effective in times of the information age.

 

companies have bigger marketing opportunities available to them for significantly less time/money cost and effort.

For example?  Door to door salesmen building a personal relationship to the customer?

Well Gamescon is much larger than E3. E3 does feel quite pointless anymore. Nintendo with directs is a cheaper and well with no pun intended..direct. It's honestly better than awkward elborate stage shows that only serve the purpose of being an awkward elborate stage show. A lot of E3 is relying out outdated methods to deliver content that is left from the days when E3 is purely a media press conference. With the internet and streaming being full swing. They could easily deliver the news in a smaller easier more direct way. It's no wonder Nintendo,EA and others kinda do thier own thing now. I mean think about it. What does E3 honestly bring that we cannot get anywhere else? What makes E3 so unique that we need it to announce games? Nothing really. There is so many shows like it now that do a better job and reach more people,it's not needed anymore.It's not 1994 when E3 was born out of CES ignoring game devlopers and E3 was the only show for games. There is some show like E3 ir delivering the same kinda of news almost monthly now.