Comments on: Changing E3 Expo 2007 – A Huge Mistake http://www.xboxsolution.com/2006/08/02/changing-e3-expo-2007-a-huge-mistake/ Xbox and Xbox 360 news and information. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:14:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Marcus http://www.xboxsolution.com/2006/08/02/changing-e3-expo-2007-a-huge-mistake/comment-page-1/#comment-22732 Marcus Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:28:45 +0000 http://www.xboxsolution.com/2006/08/02/changing-e3-expo-2007-a-huge-mistake/#comment-22732 Narcogen hit it on the head. E3 is primarily a forum for business and inviting 50,000 fanboys to the party just gums up the gears of work. In this business, most people go to 2 websites for their gaming information and if they don't, they should. The only two companies that need to be invited to E3 is Gamespot and IGN. Any other website coverage is just a waste of time. I'm not saying Gamespot and IGN are the be all and end all, but in terms of BIG industry coverage they tend to do it better than anyone else. You can disagree with their reviews all you want, but when it comes to preview coverage, they really can't be beat. E3 has been getting out of hand. I guarantee this new format will not have any negative effect on sales. Games will still receive the "Best of E3", but where did those come from anyway? Gamespot and IGN. It doesn't matter if Xboxsolution or Game Revolution calls "Gears of War" the best of E3. The publisher doesn't care about that. They care whether IGN and Gamespot call it that. The problem with this editorial can be summed up with a quote from the article: <strong>If you’re not reading their material (referring to large corporate gaming websites), you’ll never know what great things are in store for the industry.</strong> Unless you're completely ignorant of what gaming websites are the "Go To" websites for this kind of industry information, that's EXACTLY where you'll be going to get it. So this article is redundant. I don't go to Xboxsolution, Gaming-age, Gamezone, Gamespy etc. during E3. Why would I? I go to the two places I know will cover almost everything, with videos and screens and detailed previews because these places have the manpower to offer that kind of coverage. This is no slight against smaller sites. It's just, as far as I'm concerned, basic common sense. Narcogen hit it on the head. E3 is primarily a forum for business and inviting 50,000 fanboys to the party just gums up the gears of work. In this business, most people go to 2 websites for their gaming information and if they don’t, they should. The only two companies that need to be invited to E3 is Gamespot and IGN. Any other website coverage is just a waste of time. I’m not saying Gamespot and IGN are the be all and end all, but in terms of BIG industry coverage they tend to do it better than anyone else. You can disagree with their reviews all you want, but when it comes to preview coverage, they really can’t be beat.

E3 has been getting out of hand. I guarantee this new format will not have any negative effect on sales. Games will still receive the “Best of E3″, but where did those come from anyway? Gamespot and IGN. It doesn’t matter if Xboxsolution or Game Revolution calls “Gears of War” the best of E3. The publisher doesn’t care about that. They care whether IGN and Gamespot call it that.

The problem with this editorial can be summed up with a quote from the article:

If you’re not reading their material (referring to large corporate gaming websites), you’ll never know what great things are in store for the industry.

Unless you’re completely ignorant of what gaming websites are the “Go To” websites for this kind of industry information, that’s EXACTLY where you’ll be going to get it. So this article is redundant. I don’t go to Xboxsolution, Gaming-age, Gamezone, Gamespy etc. during E3. Why would I? I go to the two places I know will cover almost everything, with videos and screens and detailed previews because these places have the manpower to offer that kind of coverage. This is no slight against smaller sites. It’s just, as far as I’m concerned, basic common sense.

]]> By: Rich Reed http://www.xboxsolution.com/2006/08/02/changing-e3-expo-2007-a-huge-mistake/comment-page-1/#comment-943 Rich Reed Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:41:29 +0000 http://www.xboxsolution.com/2006/08/02/changing-e3-expo-2007-a-huge-mistake/#comment-943 Having a best of E3 logo on a game box helped companies sell more copies of that title. E3 certainly does generate sales! More deals have been made in the bathrooms and back rooms of E3. It generates tons of sales in one form or the other! E3 was always geared to bring Publishers and manufactors to the press that was one of the first changes made! The last 2 comments you posted may seem like the way it will be but the truth is that E3 needs the core press that attends E3. Even more than they need the game comapnies. The cost of a game will not drop or rise due to E3. It is and will always be a trade show it was always meant to promote. Saying by ruducing the show will help prices drop is unfounded and untrue! Having a best of E3 logo on a game box helped companies sell more copies of that title.
E3 certainly does generate sales! More deals have been made in the bathrooms and back rooms of E3. It generates tons of sales in one form or the other!
E3 was always geared to bring Publishers and manufactors to the press that was one of the first changes made!

The last 2 comments you posted may seem like the way it will be but the truth is that E3 needs the core press that attends E3. Even more than they need the game comapnies.

The cost of a game will not drop or rise due to E3. It is and will always be a trade show it was always meant to promote. Saying by ruducing the show will help prices drop is unfounded and untrue!

]]> By: Narcogen http://www.xboxsolution.com/2006/08/02/changing-e3-expo-2007-a-huge-mistake/comment-page-1/#comment-940 Narcogen Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:25:17 +0000 http://www.xboxsolution.com/2006/08/02/changing-e3-expo-2007-a-huge-mistake/#comment-940 E3 collapsed under its own weight. In essence, it was a media arms race between the three major manufacturers that delivered far less benefit to the declared "winner" than it cost to participate. E3 does not directly generate sales. E3 was never intended to connect publishers or manufacturers with the public, or even with the press, per se. It was designed to connect publishers with retailers, so those retailers could make decisions about what to order for their shelves. That will still happen. It just will happen without the 50,000 extraneous people, without fansite webmasters, without booth babes, and without the huge headache and the huger bill. The only negative thing about this downscaling of E3 is although it might reduce promotion expenses and allow game prices to drop, it almost certainly won't. E3 collapsed under its own weight. In essence, it was a media arms race between the three major manufacturers that delivered far less benefit to the declared “winner” than it cost to participate.

E3 does not directly generate sales.

E3 was never intended to connect publishers or manufacturers with the public, or even with the press, per se. It was designed to connect publishers with retailers, so those retailers could make decisions about what to order for their shelves.

That will still happen. It just will happen without the 50,000 extraneous people, without fansite webmasters, without booth babes, and without the huge headache and the huger bill.

The only negative thing about this downscaling of E3 is although it might reduce promotion expenses and allow game prices to drop, it almost certainly won’t.

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