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jason1637 on 14 January 2020
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Hiku said:

Last year there were reports from ESA employees about confusion and uncertainty of E3's future after 2021, due to restructuring within the organisation and the companies that own ESA, among other things. Plans for ESA's visions of E3 2020 leaked as well.

I talked about this a few days ago in the other thread. Sony having disagreements with ESA's new directions was being talked about about last year.
But I don't think it was talked about here, because whenever I read comments from people about Sony skipping last year, the common reply was "They're skipping because it's a transitional year and they have nothing to show."

But they and other platform holders have been through tons of transitional years before. That was probably not the reason.

The fact that they can save a lot of money while reaching a similar audience probably started looking more and more reasonable around that time.

jason1637 said:

It's not a dying show though. Attendance has remained consistent and viewership has been up.

Jason Schreier said it was half-empty last year.


But even if it was jam packed full, attendance and viewers may very well not be enough to cover the costs of putting on the event.
The leaked 2020 brainstorming plans to have 10,000 more fans attend, among other things, suggests they may be considering drastic changes.

How could it have been empty last year? Wasn't attendance just slightly down compared to 2018. Maybe it was empty the time he was there or something. 

Edit: MS had all their game in their own Ms theater a block away from the main E3 building so a lot of people could have been split between both buildings.  You needed E3 passes for the MS theater so that was probably counted as attendees.

Last edited by jason1637 - on 14 January 2020