Leynos said:
I'd argue it forced everyone to show up even if they had nothing to show. Take your example. Nintendo. They showed almost nothing in 2008, little in 2009. Little in 2015. 1 game in 2016. Very little in 2017. Not much in 2018 either so they filled most of it with Smash. Sony kept showing up for a few years in a row showing the same 4 games in the PS4 era. EA never had shit to show but more sports. Bethesda was so desperate they announced 2 games. Only one of which has come out. Now with dev cycles even longer than in 2018. That would be so much worse now. E3 was great in the 5th and 6th gen esp when a publisher could put out up to a dozen games a year. Everyone had a lot to show. |
I only ever watched Nintendo's shows, but I enjoyed a fair number of them; E3 2010 in particular was a banger. Plus after Nintendo stopped doing stage shows it sorta to force them to do a Direct in June, and a lot of those were really good.
