I'll miss the glory days of "E3 Christmas", but the event really didn't have a purpose once studios stopped doing live gameplay demos and started just showing trailers. And they were doing that even before everyone shifted to Direct-style trailer reels so...*shrug* ?

Nintendo Direct killed the E3 star.

My lasting memory of E3 is when Jesse Wellens bombed the Need For Speed: Payback introduction. I go back and rewatch that clip at least twice a year lmao, good times

I remember years ago when people were arguing Nintendo was going out of business because they decided not to do e3.  They were just ahead of the curve.

I miss the days of skipping college classes or taking the day off work to watch Nintendo's E3, but time moves on.  I still miss the days of the developers not just speaking to only "favored outlets" and avoiding uncomfortable questions.

Twenty years ago, this wold have been some sort of April Fools joke.

Ironically, 20 years ago, I think the general gaming public still wouldn't have cared. I feel like E3 didn't rise in the public consciousness until broadband internet really became a thing in the mid to late 2000s. You know, when we could watch the conferences.

I did enjoy the hype and memes that could come from E3 but, without it around, I've realized that what I really appreciated about E3 was just that it was reliable date for gaming news announcements. It was a date you could mark on the calendar and know the industry was going to showcase a bunch of stuff. Now you have people begging for a Nintendo Direct every week because no one knows when the next one will be.

e3 was big in 1999-2004 for me. I was also interested in the showings at Spaceworld.