How could your favorite company flub this e3?

[Jumpin]

TallSilhouette said:

Jumpin said:
Meh, probably best to stop pretending it's 2005. E3 is not nearly as big or important as it once was. It has lost a lot of weight. There aren't many announcements anymore, and even Nintendo has stated they plan to do their big announcements at another time. Their plans are for an extended length Direct focused on the rest of the year.

Gamescom is the most popular show of the year, and is now multiple times bigger than E3. While E3 gets under 50K in attendance and 200 exhibitors, Gamescom saw 345,000 people, including more than 6000 journalists, and over 700 exhibitors from 88 countries.

Because E3 used to be a press only event and still has limited access to the public. E3 is still the home for the biggest conferences and reveals. 

I'm not buying it. It's very clear that E3 is declining. Looking at attendance trends, E3 back in 2005 did 70K, it's declined by 30% over the years while other events have expanded significantly. In the past, it is true that the biggest announcements and all of the biggest companies held press conferences, but this has declined substantially over the years, as Nintendo (Formerly E3's biggest contributor for big announcements) no longer holds a press conference at E3 or makes big announcements there. In addition to them, 2 of the other top 5 companies, Activision and EA also no longer hold press conferences at E3. Activision has been lowering its E3 presence, period, over the years. That's 60% of the top 5 phasing out press conferences at E3, a very steep decline.