E3's death has seemingly been foretold for years, but this past summer might have just been the fatal blow. Let's talk about it. Follow me on Twitter: / thencsmaster
I actually did a video on the current state of mass game conferences like the Game awards and E3 around the beginning of the year before E3 2023-2025 were cancelled. In a nutshell while I think they absolutely have their place, major companies like Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft seem disinterested in actually holding their own events for these beyond just a single announcement and are more interested in doing presentations on their own terms, something the pandemic made even more obvious. It is kinda sad to see where they’ve gotten now but at the end of the day, the companies themselves should be the judge on how they want to distribute news and updates.
I think Sony skipping E3 multiple times every year, shows the cracks are starting to fall and the ever going presence online directs that Nintendo and other publishers when the pandemic came in as the final nail and death of E3.
Honestly I’d day E3 ended up dying due to simply refusing to adapt to the times. Once Nintendo showed that you could do your own separate, pre-recorded showcases and still got tons of attention and focus from them, both Sony and several other companies realized that they didn’t really need E3 anymore in this digital age of game reveals. E3 not only failed to find an incentive to make them stay behind, but the pandemic ended up hitting them incredibly hard, to the point where they just cancelled 2020’s show and 2021 was just a confusing and poorly planned disaster that they clearly weren’t ready for at all. They were admittedly slowly dying before the pandemic rolled around, but it basically served as the nail in the coffin and caused the process to happen far faster. While it’s definitely bittersweet that I never got to go to E3 and experience it back when it was still a thing, and I do still prefer having every company at one unified event instead of spread thin like with the past two years, there’s no denying that unless they make the biggest comeback alive, they’re now nothing more than a relic of the past.
Well, considering you had people asking why they were doing a pre recorded presentation instead of a "live press conference" at E3 as late as 2017, I think something kinda abrupt happened.
Geoff Keighley already has a big grin on his face
Didn't know you had a youtube channel. I'm definitely subscribing now!
I wanted to go to E3 so bad because I wanted to play the games i would be looking forward to every year!
The one thing that people wint miss with E3 is tge live performances that dragged on for far too long and had no purpose
I only miss e3 for trying out the latest new games coming out and meeting my favorite content creators
"Human malware" Joke stealin' ass lol
I'm glad I'm not the only person in the world that says Donion rings.
I actually did a video on the current state of mass game conferences like the Game awards and E3 around the beginning of the year before E3 2023-2025 were cancelled. In a nutshell while I think they absolutely have their place, major companies like Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft seem disinterested in actually holding their own events for these beyond just a single announcement and are more interested in doing presentations on their own terms, something the pandemic made even more obvious. It is kinda sad to see where they’ve gotten now but at the end of the day, the companies themselves should be the judge on how they want to distribute news and updates.
I think Sony skipping E3 multiple times every year, shows the cracks are starting to fall and the ever going presence online directs that Nintendo and other publishers when the pandemic came in as the final nail and death of E3.
E3 died and smrpg came back like what thanos said * a soul for a soul *
Honestly I’d day E3 ended up dying due to simply refusing to adapt to the times. Once Nintendo showed that you could do your own separate, pre-recorded showcases and still got tons of attention and focus from them, both Sony and several other companies realized that they didn’t really need E3 anymore in this digital age of game reveals. E3 not only failed to find an incentive to make them stay behind, but the pandemic ended up hitting them incredibly hard, to the point where they just cancelled 2020’s show and 2021 was just a confusing and poorly planned disaster that they clearly weren’t ready for at all. They were admittedly slowly dying before the pandemic rolled around, but it basically served as the nail in the coffin and caused the process to happen far faster.
While it’s definitely bittersweet that I never got to go to E3 and experience it back when it was still a thing, and I do still prefer having every company at one unified event instead of spread thin like with the past two years, there’s no denying that unless they make the biggest comeback alive, they’re now nothing more than a relic of the past.
Well, considering you had people asking why they were doing a pre recorded presentation instead of a "live press conference" at E3 as late as 2017, I think something kinda abrupt happened.