Comments on: Who Won E3′s Press Events?

By: Dave Long

Dave Long — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:33:11 +0000

Ah… it’s not like the old E3 though in one major way, the information is being filtered a lot more heavily through the publishers.

At E3 in past years, you’d have a lot of folks who were less tied to the mainstream gaming press posting their findings around the net. There is a whole lot less of that this time because those people simply aren’t there.

I think that’s changed the entire tone of E3 to something more centered on who’s winning and who’s losing because ultimately these publishers are most concerned with that message and not so much with the actual products themselves.

There’s just no excitement around the games because everyone’s watching through the same lens this time.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:17:01 +0000

It’s funny; they’re billing this as the “new” E3, but it’s suspiciously similar to the “old” E3. At least they managed to do away with the superfluous booth babes.

By: Corvus

Corvus — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:42:19 +0000

There’s some bad weirdness going on in the industry and attending media right now. It’s as if everyone suspects the wheels are coming off and are trying to prove how valuable they are to the process of momentum.

Almost enough to send me out in full Hunter S. Thompson regalia for a little gonzo coverage of these events.