I always wanted to go. With the even declining over the years, this could be what brings it back.

It's Entertainment Software Association

And if I lived near LA, I would consider it. But this will make it harder for press to actually do their job, maybe they need to do something like the Tokyo Game Show and have one day just for the press and the other days open to the public.

As cool as it would be to go to E3, it would be so crowded. At previous shows it already seemed very crowded. But with an extra 15000 people, is going to be crazy, unless they have way more space and demo units.

This has to be the ESA's ploy to bring back major publishers (the EAs and Activisions) into the fold. Unfortunately this will severely undercut the press' ability to get work done, specially niche and enthusiast sites like this one. I think E3 will go the way of PAX and other fan conventions in the future.

Having been to the show before and seen how packed things were there, I don't understand how anyone thinks adding 15,000 more people to that is a good idea in any sense. I also wouldn't really recommend going to it to most people. If I hadn't been there with the rest of the NWR crew and hadn't had a media badge it wouldn't have been a very enjoyable experience for the most part.

"E3 is getting too crowded! We need to downsize in 2007!"


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*eye twitches involuntarily*

This is going to be a shit show. Yeah!