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E3 has been slowly losing relevance for the last few years. I have been saying it for a while now. Once Nintendo switched to directs it was the beginning of the end. Then other publishers moved their conference just before E3. E3 just is not needed anymore. Nintendo has directs. Sony has the State of Play. MS has Inside Xbox. Tokyo Game Show exists. Gamescom. Pax and whatever else out there. Youtube, Social media. There are a million places and ways to deliver news now that didn't exist in 1995.

E3 was created out of a need in 1995. Games were at CES but were never the focus. They needed their own trade show as the industry was growing. In 2004 E3 was starting to be shown to the public for the first time with online streaming. Slowly it became less of a trade show and more into a consumer show. Now E3 is just kinda there out of habit. E3 is dying and that's fine. We don't need it anymore. Why spend hundreds of thousands to be at E3 with a booth and conference when you can either host your own event for cheaper or better press play on a video? I can see Nintendo leaving in the next year or two and reviving Spaceworld.

Last edited by Leynos - on 12 February 2020

Bite my shiny metal cockpit!