E3 Cancelled, Or Downsized?

July 30th, 2006 by Darren Stevens in Business, E3, Rumor

GameSpot reports that ESA, the organization behind E3 will make an announcement tomorrow revealing their plans to downsize E3 only for the press. GameSpot’s Curt Feldman writes:

One reason behind the downsizing of the show can be attributed to the dollar cost of the event to exhibitors, including the demands on companies to assign large numbers of staff to focus on the show, expenses associated with travel to the show, and the added expense to polish game builds and demos to be shown to attendees.

E3, the biggest gaming event quite expensive for the exhibitors, but it’s certain that the larger publishers and developers are getting some very decent PR out of it. The focus however, is on the smaller developers, without huge sums of cash to spend on E3.

E3 2006 attracted some 60,000 people and over 400 exhibitors were displaying their games, movies and hardware. The hotels and service industry in L.A. take in over 50 million during E3 every year, the same amount that attendees and exhibitors spend during the three-day event. Looks like it’s simply too expensive to everyone involved.
Nevertheless, the loss of E3 will certainly be a huge disappointment for the average gamer, and blogger as well.

Read (GameSpot)

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