Topic: Now is a good time for E3 to change.

[BlkPaladin]

 It seems that this E3 was the last E3 in LA; with renovations being done to the expo center moving them out next year and the issues currently with the construction of Farmer's Field it seems that the ESA is looking for possible new locations for the show. The current locations being considered are rumored to be New York, Chicago, New Orleans or San Francisco.

 
With them changing locations now would be a good time for them to reevaluate the show and it relevance to the market. The glorious E3 of days past use to be as some put “Christmas for gamers” with a barrage of announcements and new sights on the expo's floor. Now the bigger developers and console manufactures prefer using their own channels and platforms to introduce new titles so they can control the message and the exposure the games get the last two E3's have been for lack of a better word flat and unable to recapture the excitement they lost when they “slimmed” down the show.

 
Since the show is now not a place for the “hot new” announcements they may want to change the show from industry only to a more accessible format such as Gamescom or the Tokyo Game Show has. Where the first few days is industry only with a day or two for gaming enthusiasts to get a first look of what is going to hot in the next few months.

 
And they may be leaning towards the direction the location of E3 was chosen because it was an industry only event and with the majority of developers and console producers having their headquarters on the west coast and west coast location was the way to go. But only one of the four rumored location are located on the west coast.

 
New York and Chicago are great places to locate to since both are fairly accessible Chicago boasting one of the biggest international airports and a more “tourist friendly“ and New York while not as cheap as Chicago is located in one of the highest population densities in the US.

 
Also by opening it up to the public can also boost potential exposure to titles shown at the show, which may help give the show a better chance to be the place that new hot titles get announced at.

[Stogi]

I think Nintendo should leave E3 all together. As a small company, massive venues with press all about gives you an opportunity you otherwise couldn't afford to have. But as a huge company, one in the same strata as Apple, Google and Facebook, I think Nintendo should follow suit and bring back Space World (but with a less stupid name). Maybe Nintendo Expo.

[Oblivion]

Can you imagine the headlines if Nintendo stopped going to E3? My god, it'd be a freaking bloodbath.

[Shaymin]

The last time a big-3 console maker pulled out of E3, they had the next one in a freaking airport hangar.

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LET'S DO THIS~!

[Drizzt]

I wish they'd open E3 to the public but wouldn't the tickets be really expensive?

[NWR_insanolord]

I'm probably a bit biased, but I really don't think opening it to the public is a good idea. There are too many people there as it is, and having to fight my way through crowds of people wearing "Exhibits Only" badges to get to stuff I had to cover is really annoying. As it stands, it's not that hard to get into the show if you really want to

[Oblivion]

It is if you don't actually work for a respected website. Drizzt and I co-own a website but it's not like we can just get E3 passes.

[ShyGuy]

Chris Kohler talks about the future of E3. I don't think you will like it.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/06/wheres-my-water-e3/

[Chozo Ghost]

Maybe Nintendo Expo.

They should call it "Nintendo Land".

[ThePerm]

how hard is it to rent out a convention center for a day, announce theres going to be a convention 3 weeks ahead on twitter, hold the convention and announce some games, and skidaddle? It wouldn't even have to be a big event, you could hold this **** at a rented movie theater. The next hour its big fucking news.

[Chozo Ghost]

They should pick some rural backwater hick town somewhere in the middle of nowhere to host E3 even if its just for one year. That would put that little town on the map and mean more to those banjo playing hillfolk than it could ever mean to someone in a place like San Francisco or wherever, where things like that are common and routine.

[UncleBob]

I'm probably a bit biased, but I really don't think opening it to the public is a good idea. There are too many people there as it is, and having to fight my way through crowds of people wearing "Exhibits Only" badges to get to stuff I had to cover is really annoying. As it stands, it's not that hard to get into the show if you really want to

The solution, of course, would be to have a multi-day event with one of the days being "Industry Only".

I still think E3 needs to go away, the ESA needs to team up with Penny Arcade and support PAX and help create a third PAX (here in the midwest!).  Make each event an extra day longer for "industry only".  This would give smaller outfits the ability to set up at an event closer to them *and* since it'd be three times a year, they could set up when they're closer to launch.

[shingi_70]

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E3 as we know it in a few years will be more like MWC and CES than the mostly gaming event we know it now. I mean looking at microsofts press conference and the way while gamers hated it everywhere else smartglass being dubbed the highlight of the show should tell you something.

[TJ Spyke]

how hard is it to rent out a convention center for a day, announce theres going to be a convention 3 weeks ahead on twitter, hold the convention and announce some games, and skidaddle? It wouldn't even have to be a big event, you could hold this **** at a rented movie theater. The next hour its big fucking news.

For the ESA? Not that hard. For the hundreds of media organizations that need to figure out transportation/hotel accommodations for their reporters, companies to set up booths/demos, etc.? Very hard.

[ThePerm]

how hard is it to rent out a convention center for a day, announce theres going to be a convention 3 weeks ahead on twitter, hold the convention and announce some games, and skidaddle? It wouldn't even have to be a big event, you could hold this **** at a rented movie theater. The next hour its big fucking news.

For the ESA? Not that hard. For the hundreds of media organizations that need to figure out transportation/hotel accommodations for their reporters, companies to set up booths/demos, etc.? Very hard.

no, not the ESA. Nintendo. Nintendo needs to make more announcement more often, and its amazing what people come from twitter announcements. Of course there should be an accommodating website and links during the announcement. As well as Nintendo Direct feeds. Not to mention select media like IGN, and G4 invited. Its amazing what forums around the world do whenever theres a small announcement announced to be made. It always becomes Iwataton megaton announcements