E3 has had a foot in the grave for the last ten years. The availability of the internet kinda invalidated any need for expensive physical conventions. When they changed their rules to allow the general public to attend, that was a pretty clear death rattle, imo. And the Big 3 all pretty much pulling out entirely and doing their own streamed announcement events didn't help matters. Covid also ended up killing whatever momentum E3 had left. Basically everything was stacked against E3 for a long while now.

Super disappointing, but also super expected, honestly. See you in the next life, giant enemy crabs.

RIP. Went to 3 E3 conferences back to back at the end of their golden years. Boy was it a glorious spectacle that I’m thankful I got to experience.

Good riddance. The Game Awards next please.

It's a shame. The GamesCom in Europe seems to be doing quite well so it's not really a matter of "conferences are dead".

I know conferences are no longer a place for big announcements. There's no more need to gather all the press in one place, they can just do it online now, at a dedicated time when they're not competing with other announcements in the industry. But as a visitor I really enjoyed going to GamesCom. Never been to the US so the E3 is not a thing for me but I'm sure this will have knock-on effects globally.

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Good riddance. E3 offered nothing over just watching trailers on YT except for the multiple hours of advertisements and marketing pushed throughout the convention.

Sad. We will just end up with geoff keighley's shitty events now.

Gamescom is still doing well though.

I had some fun going in 2018 with friends, but it definitely felt like a theme park with lines everywhere for demos. Maybe there's room for something to take its place focused on those demos or community events, rather than announcements that most visitors couldn't attend anyway.